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From: fritz@utastro.UUCP (Fritz Benedict)
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Subject: Re: Something else to watch out for!
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 10:27:37 EDT
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> In article <11270@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
> >What caused this? Well, the theory is that that airplane had the first 
> >observed encounter with a meteor. A several-ton meteor, of several meters
> >diameter, perhaps composed of mostly ice with some stony fragments, could
> >have hit that cloud layer on its way down through the atmosphere.
> 
> Shouldn't that be *meteorite*?
> 
>                              Seth Lipkin
>                              General Computer Company
>
>                              harvard!gcc-bill!lip

It's a *meteor* until it hits the ground. Then it's a *meteorite*. Hitting a 
cloud is a rather grey area between ( 8-) ).
-- 
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