> Meteors are easier to see at night.
> Meteorites are easier to see during the day. :-)

Fancy being PICky on an OT thread :-)
Yes, my usage was inexact.

Good explanation of terms

    http://www.bartleby.com/64/C004/035.html

In summary

a meteoroid is a stone in interplanetary space ranging in size from a speck
of dust to a chunk about 100 meters in diameter-just shy of being an
asteroid; a meteor is the bright flash of light produced by a meteoroid as
it hits Earth's atmosphere and is also used to refer to the stone itself
while it is in Earth's atmosphere; finally, a meteorite is a meteoroid that
has survived the transition through Earth's atmosphere and rests on Earth's
surface.

Buy one

        http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/mmhome.htm

Bigger & very big ones

        http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

> You can sometimes see stars by looking up through a tall chimney on a
> non-hazy day.

Yes. - same affect as I was alluding to with the long internally blackened
pipe



        RM

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