Reply #24: Look, I'll admit I pulled that out of a very foggy memory.

[TalkingDog]

The the nut of it is still substantial. All evidence to the contrary, astronomers denied the existence of meteors or meteorites until long after they should have. They did it because of scientific fundamentalism and because it contradicted their world view.

Kinda like the whole earth around the sun, round planet thing....

If you wait for me to find the exact notation on it (which was not an urban legend) this posting will be long gone.

So, sorry I'm fallible, but that's just how it is sometimes.

Ignore my foggy memory and my patchy reconstructions of interesting factiods.