# Are there large undiscovered gold reserves in the US? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-large-undiscovered-gold-reserves-in-the-us/953898 "2021-11-06T16:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-large-undiscovered-gold-reserves-in-the-us/953898/14 "2021-11-07T12:29:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > A meteorite is a piece of an asteroid that has fallen to the Earth’s surface. Not all meteorites are asteroid in nature. Some are meteoroid. Had you looked this up as I suggested, you’d know this. > [@](#): > > It never stops being part of an asteroid. Nobody ever says “an asteroid fell to earth”, or “this is the site of an asteroid impact”. Do you ever go to the rock shop and say “show me your asteroid section?” No. It’s meteorites. Aways meteorites. Nobody ever calls it anything else. You know this. > [@](#): > > I don’t need to look it up, I have been a meteorite collector for more than 20 years and have forgotten more about them than you will ever know. You are not helping anybody with your Dunning-Keuger nonsense. There’s that burning white-hot irony again! Look, you were pedantic enough to bust somebody’s chops over “meteor” not being close enough to “meteorite”. There’s some SDMB rule that states that your correction must contain an error, and that someone else must point it out. The proper protocol is that you good-naturedly have a laugh at your own expense, you don’t double down on something that could easily be resolved with 5 seconds of googling. This will surely anger the board gods and bring some form of calamity to us all, and it will be all your fault. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-large-undiscovered-gold-reserves-in-the-us/953898)._