Re: Snaps

"Richard Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "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.
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> > > >>3.  Put it in orbit.
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> > > >Two words:  micro meteores
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> > > Or better, micro meteors
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> > Better yet, micro meteorites.
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> My astronomy training may have been different than yours.  I was taught
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> the term "meteorite" referred to the remnant portion of a meteor that
> reached the Earths' surface.


Meteor:    A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid
is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also
called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meteor

We are both wrong, the proper words are "micro meteroids". (A "meteorite"
referrs to the remnant portion of a meteoroid.)

Z