Re: Snaps

"zolota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In sci.physics
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce) wrote:
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> > >In sci.physics
> > >Eric Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >>1.  Etch into the surface of a durable and stable material (nickel,
> > >>stainless steel etc)
> > >>
> > >>2.  Make a sandwich of it, with the image to the inside.
> > >>
> > >>3.  Put it in orbit.
> > >
> > >Two words:  micro meteores
> >
> > Or better, micro meteors
> >
> Better yet, micro meteorites.

My astronomy training may have been different than yours.  I was taught that
the term "meteorite" referred to the remnant portion of a meteor that
reached the Earths' surface.