Question Posted Tue, 13 Jun 2006

What do you a call someone who studies meteors?

No, really.

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A meteoriticist.  See meteoritics, meteoriticist.
Posted by Seth Schoen at Tue Jun 13 21:04:11 2006
..meteocre?
Posted by mika at Tue Jun 13 21:06:42 2006
Sorry.
Posted by mika at Tue Jun 13 21:10:50 2006
Asa Dotzler ?
Posted by whynot at Tue Jun 13 21:15:36 2006
Roxy.

Rock... see... geddit? :)
Posted by Andy at Tue Jun 13 21:39:11 2006
Astronomer?
Posted by Dennis at Wed Jun 14 01:19:34 2006
Astrogeologists
Posted by FunkyPenguin at Wed Jun 14 01:20:36 2006
Meteorologist
Posted by Jonathan at Wed Jun 14 04:09:47 2006
You've been watching Brianac haven't you? :)

I would almost say 'meteorite', but that's silly...

Meteorologist also sounded right, but those are the folks that precast the weather...
Posted by Pascal de Bruijn at Wed Jun 14 04:40:32 2006
Astrobiologists :)
Posted by Jon Cooper at Wed Jun 14 06:51:24 2006
OK. Seth seems most correct. However, there are two definitions of meteor that seem relevant: the ball of rock (meteroid or meteorite) and the "shooting star" or fileball that it creates. Wouldn't "meteoriticist only apply to the former?
Posted by mako at Wed Jun 14 09:37:10 2006
SCIENTIST
Posted by soop at Wed Jun 14 10:23:17 2006
astrophysical/astrophysicist??
Posted by ester at Wed Jun 14 11:12:22 2006
Hey you!
(tends to work for pretty much anyone) ;P
Posted by JaneW at Wed Jun 14 13:35:58 2006
Geologist
Posted by RichB at Wed Jun 14 13:36:35 2006
Are you referring to the MIT Mystery Hunt joke last year about the meterologist?
Posted by Asheesh Laroia at Wed Jun 14 16:48:47 2006
Asheesh, I must have missed that joke.
Posted by mako at Wed Jun 14 17:00:36 2006
A meteorologist is involved in weather though...

Asa Dotzler..hahaha (i've met him before but I see no sign on having interests on meteors..he's interested in Ubuntu though)
Posted by Jerome Gotangco at Wed Jun 14 20:16:28 2006
You call him/her by his/her name ;-)
Posted by einstein at Thu Jun 15 21:10:48 2006
I'd call him a SPACE ROCKER...
Posted by wouter at Sat Jun 17 09:02:10 2006
Meteorer.
Posted by Bill at Tue Jun 20 03:12:53 2006
Chef Boyardee?
Posted by elbev at Wed Jun 21 12:40:49 2006
Gallians. They were always worried about the sky falling over him, so probably they studied meteors :P

No more joking. What about "meteorist"?
Posted by edu at Sat Jun 24 17:45:10 2006
Really, I'd call hime someone who studies meteors. :-/ Do we need a name for everything?
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Posted by Delichatsios at Sun Oct 22 02:43:41 2006
I was just looking for that answer when I found this!!
Posted by Cortney at Sat Dec 9 21:24:07 2006
It'd really depend on ones interest area in meteorites.  For instance, composition study could be Astrominerology or Xenominerology to further distinguish its extraterrestrial interests within Minerology, or Xenobiology if (perpetually fruitlessly) investigating for signs of organic life and compounds.  But just about everything up until impact would fall under a flavor of Physics, barring the chemistry of burning.

So all in all I'd call them Rock Collectors.
Posted by gadiv at Thu Oct 23 01:21:39 2008

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