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Suggested guide to wikilink addition

There is a temptation to add links to all geographical locations mentioned ... and some folks will likely take discouraging that as an abridgement of their editing privileges. Nonetheless, I would suggest keeping the number of off-page wikilinks to a minimum. In fact, I would suggest that the main wikilinks to add would be attached to the names of meteorites and only be placed when there is information in the target article on the named meteorite. For instance, encouraging Appley Bridge#Appley Bridge meteorite while discouraging Hungen (using a permalink as the article might change to include information later). Would you (editors of this page) generally support this guideline? --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is probably the right philosophy. I would suggest that the highest priority should be links to pages about the specific meteorite. Second would be links to articles that mention the meteorite, as you describe for Appley Bridge. Links to articles with no meteorite content pretty much serve only to obscure the information a reader is likely to be searching for. --JeffG 19:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meteorite Falls?

Just in case anyone is still interested in something so old-fashioned as proper English, meteorites do not travel through space; meteoroids do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11:09, 21 mag 2007 - 69.121.234.204 (talk • contribs)

Meteorites indicated as "falls" are simply meteorites that were collected after someone or something see them fall from the sky. For this reason the date of the fall is usually known. Meteorites indicated as "finds" were simply find on the field. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 11:02, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Table philosophy

User:Hamamelis just spent a lot of time chopping the table into sections. This defeats one's ability to sort the large list by date, country, or meteorite type. The question is, which is more important: convenience in editing plus quicker finding of specific names, or being able to, say, find all meteorites that fell in India or fell in the 1980s? I would say the latter and would like to revert. --JeffG (talk) 11:22, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some sort of explanation for the different categories would be helpful, at least. what is a santa barbara tonk, for example?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.48.6.140 (talk) 19:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Historical Relativism

History changes nations, how to account for this in the table? The 1492 Ensisheim fall occurred when the Alsace was part of Germany but the country is now listed as France. Elbogen in 1400 was the German name of a city in Kingdom of Bohemia, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but now in the Czech Republic, an entity that did not then exist. hgwb (talk) 03:59, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

St Just

Added on 14 November 2013 from a report in my local newspaper. Read as follows: °At midnight on Thursday a long tail of fire was seen in the sky at St Just, somewhat resembling a shooting star. Soon after a meteorite fell on the house of Mr Daniel in Cape Cornwall Street. It was pickedup by Mr W Chenalls, and later sent by Mr HF Olds to the curator of the Geological Museum for inspection.° Seems strange that most of these sightings do not have a reference.Jowaninpensans (talk) 10:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fully agree with your view.

What do you think of today's (10/02/24) suggestion on this Talk page in the topic "'Others' table?" I see a citation is in the Meteorcritical Bulletin column for St Just.

Btw, is the 2013 The Cornishman report any more precise about the date in 1913 that the report appeared in (I suppose?) The Cornishman?

Protalina (talk) 20:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Rivolta d'Adda meteorite

The official name seems to be Rivolta de Bassi. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=22614 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.130.153.43 (talk) 17:06, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Meteorite harvest

https://www.imo.net/3-fireballs-3-meteorites-in-a-row/

This page is so incomplete you could make an entire wiki category just for these events. 2.44.139.28 (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

'Others' table: proposed additional column to encourage addition of citations and notes

I suggest an additional column on the right, called References & notes (or Refs. & notes for concision), where articles in academic journals & RS newspapers, etc, could be cited, and scope-notes (as footnotes) added.

Example for the Dresden, Ontario fall below.

Others

Meteorite name	Fall observation date	Country	State, province, or region	Class	Instrumentally observed orbital data^[1]	Meteoritical Bulletin(s)	References & notes
Aachen	1880	Germany	North Rhine-Westphalia	L5	No
Dresden	11 July 1939	Canada	Ontario	H6	No		^[2]^[3]^[i]
Zvonkov	2 September 1955	Ukraine	Kyiv	H6	No	06

References

^ Borovička, Jiří; Spurný, Pavel; Brown, Peter (11 February 2015). Small Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites. arXiv:1502.03307. Bibcode:2015aste.book..257B. doi:10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816530595-ch014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Plotkin, Howard (April 2006). "The Dresden (Ontario) H6 Chondrite, Part I: Fireball Observations, Recovery and Sale, Field Searches, and Tribute". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 100 (2): 64–72. Bibcode:2006JRASC.100...64P. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
^ McCausland, Phil J.A.; Brown, Peter G. & Wilson, Graham C. (June 2006). "The Dresden (Ontario) H6 Chondrite, Part II: Classification, Estimated Fireball Trajectory, and Possible Origin". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 100 (3): 104–113. Bibcode:2006JRASC.100..104M. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
^ "Meteorite's Purchaser Has an Eye to Business : Dr. Luke Smith Receives Many Offers, But Waits for 'Top' Bid". The Brantford Expositor. Chatham, Ontario. 14 July 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 10 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Mrs. Dan Solomon, wife of the farmer who sold the $200 rock for $4, is worried. 'I don't know what Dan was thinking of [...],' she lamented. '[He] didn't really know what he was doing.'

Notes

^ Dan Solomon (1895–1968), farmer, excavated the main 40 kg mass of the Dresden meteorite from the field where it fell on 11 July 1939.^[2]^: 66 He sold the meteorite mass he had extracted to a speculator for a sum far below its worth.^[4] The University of Western Ontario eventually bought it. In November 2003, the University, whose Department of Earth Sciences had recently searched the area for fragments, hosted three generations of Solomon's descendants at a tribute dinner^[2]^: 70 and established an annual Can$500 student award, the "Solomon Family Award in Planetary Science".

Protalina (talk) 17:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[Borovička-1] Borovička, Jiří; Spurný, Pavel; Brown, Peter (11 February 2015). Small Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites. arXiv:1502.03307. Bibcode:2015aste.book..257B. doi:10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816530595-ch014.

[plotkin-2] Plotkin, Howard (April 2006). "The Dresden (Ontario) H6 Chondrite, Part I: Fireball Observations, Recovery and Sale, Field Searches, and Tribute". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 100 (2): 64–72. Bibcode:2006JRASC.100...64P. Retrieved 10 February 2024.

[McCausland-3] McCausland, Phil J.A.; Brown, Peter G. & Wilson, Graham C. (June 2006). "The Dresden (Ontario) H6 Chondrite, Part II: Classification, Estimated Fireball Trajectory, and Possible Origin". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 100 (3): 104–113. Bibcode:2006JRASC.100..104M. Retrieved 10 February 2024.

[4] "Meteorite's Purchaser Has an Eye to Business : Dr. Luke Smith Receives Many Offers, But Waits for 'Top' Bid". The Brantford Expositor. Chatham, Ontario. 14 July 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 10 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Mrs. Dan Solomon, wife of the farmer who sold the $200 rock for $4, is worried. 'I don't know what Dan was thinking of [...],' she lamented. '[He] didn't really know what he was doing.'

[5] Dan Solomon (1895–1968), farmer, excavated the main 40 kg mass of the Dresden meteorite from the field where it fell on 11 July 1939.^[2]^: 66 He sold the meteorite mass he had extracted to a speculator for a sum far below its worth.^[4] The University of Western Ontario eventually bought it. In November 2003, the University, whose Department of Earth Sciences had recently searched the area for fragments, hosted three generations of Solomon's descendants at a tribute dinner^[2]^: 70 and established an annual Can$500 student award, the "Solomon Family Award in Planetary Science".

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