Re: Extinction

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/2000 2:49:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
Dinogeorge@aol.com writes:

> << meteor - a streak of light caused by the fall of a meteorite. 
>   bolide - a meteor that explodes while in the air. >>
>  
>  At the risk of sounding tedious, under these definitions, a bolide would 
have 
>  to be a >meteoroid<, not a >meteor<, that explodes while in the air. 
Streaks 
>  of light don't explode.

This is starting to get off topic, but under the definitions I learned, a 
meteoroid is a hunk of rock/metal/whatever out in space.  It becomes a meteor 
when it enters the atmosphere and starts to burn up, and if it actually hits 
the ground, it becomes a meteorite.

--Nick P.