Phil.

That is correct.  A meteorite is a meteor that fails to completely burn up 
in the atmosphere and reaches the ground.

73, de Lou K2LKK



HiAt 05:46 PM 12/8/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>At 7:55 this morning, a fairly good sized meteor shot across the Rocky
>Mountains during rush hour.  Thousands of people saw it, too.  One man
>called a talk show and he had just topped a hill when it shot across the sky
>to the west.  The sun had just come up in Denver but this thing was bright
>green and left a nice bright green trail across the sky.  Even with the sun
>just up, this was still bright enough to be clearly visible.  One of the
>scientist they interviewed later said he guessed it might have been, based
>upon the large visual display in the sky as it shot across the Rockies, that
>it might have been as large as a basket ball when it made its appearance in
>the sky.  I'd be surprised if it were that big but you never know.  Scared
>the crap out of a lot of people, though.  Boy, just think of the meteor
>scatter that size would cause on 2 and 6 meters, haw.  By the way, they said
>when it is in the air it is called a meteor but when it is on the ground it
>is called a meteorite.  That doesn't sound right but that's what they
>reported.
>
>Phil.
>
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