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Meteors vs. Meteorites. The News Media, as expected, is wonderfully confusing these two terms without bothering to look them up or ask somebody, seemingly making random selection of which to use, or simply using one and then the other to avoid sounding repetitious, the bane of journalism, like pope/pontiff or earthquake/temblor.
"A meteorite is a meteoroid (a solid piece of debris from such sources as asteroids or comets) originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface." (Wikipedia)
So far, there are no meteorites in the Siberia incident. Only when solid fragments are found on the ground that survived the impact, will there be any meteorites to be spoken about. It's all meteors so far. Or, meteoroids, a term which encompasses both.
The same former co-worker who spoke of, "tatistics", also used to love telling us about the gifts that she received on Valentime's Day.
She also enjoyed celebrating her, "birfday", in, "Norf Carolina", where her parents reside.
Additionally, she used to advise parents to be more, "strick", with their misbehaving children.
I knew two well educated people who said birfday. One also said 'pelinsula.'
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