# Front Page link

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/front-page-link/321755>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 15, 2005, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/front-page-link/321755 "2005-09-15T09:52:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/front-page-link/321755/1 "2005-09-15T09:52:19Z")

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I didn’t know where else to put this.  
I got my weekly news letter, with links to the various questions. The new Cecil answer [link](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050916.html) is broken. No, wait, that won’t help, its the broken link. Darn.  
I went to the front page and it has a different question… Now what? I want to know the end of the answer…

> [@Cecil](#):
>
> Cecil replies:
> 
> The rocks were found on earth, Kent, so they’re meteorites,  
> not meteors. (Meteors are space rocks that fry in the  
> atmosphere; meteorites are the remnants that make it all the  
> way down.) Once you get that straight, try chewing on this:  
> Scientists think the martian meteorites came from Mars  
> because–I realize the nontechnical mind won’t find this  
> entirely persuasive–they couldn’t plausibly have come from  
> anywhere else.
> 
> The Martian meteorites–34 have been identified to date–are  
> collectively known as the SNC (pronounced “snick”) group.  
> The letters stand for three related categories of  
> geologically unusual meteorite: shergottites, the prototype  
> of which fell in 1865 near the town of Shergotty in India;  
> nakhlites, named for a rock that dropped on Nakhla, Egypt,  
> in 1911; and chassignites, so called because of the specimen  
> thatlanded in Chassigny, France, in 1815.
> 
> For years it was assumed that the SNC meteorites were hunks  
> of asteroid like pretty much every other space rock. Then in  
> 1979 . . .

sigh…

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/front-page-link/321755/2 "2005-09-15T11:07:28Z")

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The Joke-A-Day server sent the mailing 24 hours earlier than it was supposed to.

Our apologies.

We cannot put the new column on the site until after midnight. You’ll just need to sit tight a little bit.

your humble TubaDiva

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/front-page-link/321755/3 "2005-09-15T11:43:33Z")

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\<sniff\> 'k, if I have to… ☹