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Re: Repost: Heze/Juancheng meteorite
Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> I'm reposting this, since it got "digested" and may not have been
> seen. Sorry for bothering everybody who already saw it.
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> Many of you readers of this group know about the 1997 February fall
> of a meteorite in Shandong Province, China. The name of this meteorite
> that is in wide circulation is "Heze." However, the Nomenclature
> Committee of the Meteoritical Society has decided that the official
> name for this fall will henceforth be "Juancheng."
>
> There were several good reasons for making a decision that could
> obviously cause some confusion among museums and collectors.
>
> 1) The name "Juancheng" was put forward by scholars at the
> Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, one of the institutions
> that normally takes responsibility for Chinese meteorite nomenclature.
>
> 2) The name "Heze" is already in use, as a synonym for another
> nearby meteorite, "Hotse," which fell in 1956. I'm not 100% certain,
> but I'd guess that "Heze" is simply the Pinyin spelling of "Hotse."
> Anyway, an entry for "Heze" already appears in the Catalogue of
> Meteorites, so this name cannot be used for a new meteorite.
>
> So, we encourage all of you who have some of this meteorite in
> your possession to now switch to the official name.
>
> Jeff Grossman
> Editor, Meteoritical Bulletin
Hi Jeff was or is there now an official classification? H/? . Thanks
Henry
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