Talk:Meteorite
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Was Tunguska ever proven to be a meteorite impact? I was under the impression that the cause was still unknown...
Hmmm. Provided it was not a spontaneous phenomenon native to the planet (which seems a remote possibility) it was likely something to do with a meteorite. I always thought that a meteorite was thought to have caused the effect (which was centered in the air by the way) but the HOW of it remains a mystery. Still, i'm not really high on it. Please fill in other interesting impacts :-) --Anders Törlind
- AFAIK the general consensus is that it was a comet fragment. --Eitheladar 10:28, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Here's a question; are bits of stuff that fall on other planets also called meteorites? Or is this a geocentric term? Dictionary.com seems to suggest this, but doesn't say it explicitly one way or the other. Bryan Derksen 21:49 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)
- What else would you call them ? On the other hand, the asteroid article implies that the distinction between meteoroids (less than about 50 m) and asteroids (more than about 50 m) is geocentric:
- micro-meteroids are so small that they completely burn up when entering earth's atmosphere (becoming meteors).
- meteoroids almost completely burn up when entering earth's atmosphere (also called a meteors during that time), but at least some of solid part reaches the ground (becoming a meteorite).
- asteroids are large enough to make it all the way through earth's atmosphere without significant loss (becoming a ____).
- --DavidCary 21:02, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Everybody calls Heat Shield Rock (meteorite found on Mars) a meteorite. 193.171.121.30 18:40, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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