Re: Extinction

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/00 6:16:56 PM EST, jdaniel@aristotle.net writes:

<< At the risk of sounding tedious, it would be >a meteorite<, not a 
>meteoroid<
 since it has to actually enter the atmosphere to explode in air. Meteoroids 
were
 defined as not entering the atmosphere. >>

At the risk of sounding tedious and earning a justifiable censure from the 
list manager for continuing a non-dinosaurian thread beyond all regulatory 
bounds, it's not a meteorite until it hits the ground (according to the 
proffered definitions), so it has to be a meteoroid.