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Re: (meteorobs) Meteor Astronomers
In a message dated 1/14/00 8:22:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
lunro.imo.usa@prodigydot net writes:
<< Is there a name for those who
>study meteors? Obviously, the person said, they're not >meteorologists".
>Do you know... does a name exist?
>>
In his classic book "Getting Acquainted with Comets" (McGraw Hill, 1966),
Robert S. Richardson provides a chapter (#13) on "Your Fireball Observation."
In this chapter, Richardson provides what he describes as a "not too
imaginary" (and rather humorous) conversation between an important
on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch
and a "meteoriticist."
So . . . I would assume that for somebody who studies meteors -- based
solely upon Richardson, who worked at Mount Wilson and Palomar and was later
Associate Director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles -- that's what
you would call him/her: a "meteoriticist."
-- joe rao
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