Re: The Real Stars

[Calvin Shipbaugh <calvin@rand.org>]

Rick Kujawa wrote:
> 
> I was watching the academy awards recently and I thought there should be
> an academy awards for meteorites.  They deserve it, after all they
> were/are the real "stars."
> 
>   These aren't Oscars, so what should the awards be called?  How about
> "The Barneys" (as a homage to what did-in the dinosaurs)?


Sort of like giving stars to stars, I like that.  I don't care what you
call them, but I have some contemporary nominees to suggest:

Best Ordinary Chondrite:
(a) Farmington  (b) Hamada du Draa  (c) Juancheng  (d) Jilin   (e)
Holbrook

Best Iron
(a) Canyon Diablo  (b) Sikhote Alin  (c) Henbury  (d) Cape York  (e)
Gibeon  (f) Chinga

Best Enstatite
(a) Sahara E3  (b) Happy Canyon  (c) Abee (d) Indarch

Best Carbonaceous Chondrite
(a) Orgueil  (b) Allende  (c) Renazzo  (d) Murchison  (e) Sahara CO3

Best Pallasite
(a) Imilac  (b) Esquel  (c) Springwater  (d) Albin  (e) Krasnoyarsk

Best Achondrite
(a)  Kapoeta   (b)  any SNC   (c)  Kenna  (d) Johnstown   (e) Calcalong
Creek

Best Overall Tektite
(a)  Besednice  (b) LDG   (c) Georgia  (d)  Ivory Coast  (e) Anda  (f)
Javanite  (g) Muong Nong  (h) The Moon (:-)

Best Slice
(a)  Miles  (b) Estherville  (c) Udei Station  (d) Farmington  (e)
Etched Gibeon

Best Individual
(a) Sikhote Alin individual  (b) oriented Millbillillie  (c) Well
Oriented Gao  (d) Imilac shrapnel

Best Bolide*
(a) Tunguska  (b) Sikhote Alin  (c) Peekskill  (d) Pasamonte  

Best Stability
(a) Esquel  (b) Gibeon (c) ???




* I like that word.

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