# HMS\_Irruncible, I have a suggestion for where you can place your concern **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 23, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299 "2020-11-23T21:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/81 "2021-11-07T17:48:38Z")
I find plenty of articles with titles like “Microtektites, Microkrystites, and Spinels from a Late Pliocene Asteroid Impact in the Southern Ocean” “New Evidence on the Size and Possible Effects of a Late Pliocene Oceanic Asteroid Impact” and sentences like “This month, a drilling platform will rise in the Gulf of Mexico, but it won’t be aiming for oil. Scientists will try to sink a diamond-tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater—the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet.” (All from the American Association for the Advancement of Science" ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/82 "2021-11-07T17:51:21Z")
How odd that a dispute about meteors would lead to a flame war. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/83 "2021-11-07T18:09:58Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Not all meteorites are asteroid in nature. Some are meteoroid. Had you looked this up as I suggested, you’d know this. Yeah. Just a quick search finds that most meteoroids come from collided asteroids, so trying to suggest they are separate species seems incorrect. My sister has a doctorate in astronomy (poor thing). I just texted her, but I suspect she’ll back you up. The person who you corrected definitely didn’t know what a meteor was and was happy to learn something new. Didn’t seem to mind your “chop bustin’”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/84 "2021-11-07T18:17:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > How odd that a dispute about meteors would lead to a flame war. Yeah, it cratered pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/85 "2021-11-07T18:18:34Z")
No, it really _blew up_ quickly. Haven’t you been paying attention? It’s the _meteorites_ that crater: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Meteoroid_meteor_meteorite.gif) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Meteoroid_meteor_meteorite.gif) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/86 "2021-11-07T20:56:37Z")
> [@Are there large undiscovered gold reserves in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-large-undiscovered-gold-reserves-in-the-us/953898/14): > > Nobody ever says “an asteroid fell to earth”, or “this is the site of an asteroid impact”. What an ignoramus. People - no, let me be more specific - _[scientists](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15269-x)_ say this all the damn time. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299/87 "2021-11-08T09:50:29Z")
I’d just like to say that I’d never encountered the word “meteoroid” before these threads. That said, it seems a bit like arguing the meaning of the word “bullet”. Technically, it means just the projectile, but in colloquial speech it’s also used to describe the entire round of ammunition, and really, that’s just fine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hms-irruncible-i-have-a-suggestion-for-where-you-can-place-your-concern/926299.md?page=4)