You should change June 28th's title to Uluru. (28 Jun 2008)

tallackn · Post by **tallackn** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:52 pm

I am not sure if the site publishers read this forum. But if you do, you should change the title of June 28th's entry to Uluru. While you have referenced the native name in the text, the primary use of the legacy name is a little insensitive.

The Australian government calls it Uluru without exception now. The site is called Uluru everywhere. Everyone who lives here calls it Uluru.

If you are not convinced, even Wikipedia redirects "Ayers Rock" to the "Uluru" entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru

As the Wikipedia article notes, since November 2002 the official standard is to use the name Uluru ahead of any reference to Ayers Rock.

That being said, AWESOME picture!!! GREAT site guys! Keep up the great work!!!

Nathan...

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:10 am

<<It is sometimes reported that those who take rocks from ["Uluru"] will be cursed and suffer misfortune. There have been many instances where people who removed such rocks attempted to mail them back to various agencies in an attempt to remove the perceived curse.>> - Wikipedia

Just some alien returning a Uluru rock: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080628.html

tallackn · Post by **tallackn** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:03 am

neufer>

Classic!

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:10 pm

I may be wrong, but from the picture; that meteor may have become a meteoroid.

Orin

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:17 pm

orin stepanek wrote:I may be wrong, but from the picture; that meteor may have become a meteoroid.

A meteor is the visible track of an asteroid or meteoroid (smaller than an asteroid) as it burns up in the earths atmosphere. A meteor is an event not an obect. The object was an asteroid (big) or meteoroid (small).

Perhaps you meant meteorite, which is the portion that survives the passage and impact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid