[meteorite-list] Jalu meteorite and Carion practices

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:13 2004
Message-ID: <001a01c0f845$a219b700$504ebfa8_at_net>

Hello Alexander and List:

>a Meteoritical Bulletin (well, at least not to my actual >knowledge): an
LL3 meteorite still sold under the
>(provisional, not official!) name of "Begaa".

Interesting. Who did the classification and where was it published?

-Walter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Seidel" <ase_at_planet-interkom.de>
To: <SaharaTeam_at_aol.com>
Cc: <Impactika_at_aol.com>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>;
<zipfel_at_mpch-mainz.mpg.de>; <jgrossman@usgs.gov>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Jalu meteorite and Carion practices


> Impactika_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> > also with great black shock veins, and a beautiful smooth shiny dark
crust!
> > It is a L6 from Libya (with a name, not a number) :-)
>
> The Pelissons wrote:
>
> > Not a number and NOT an official name in the Meteoritical Bulletin,
perhaps
> > you could explain!
>
> > Some French people want to extend the NWA prospecting with data lost in
> > Libya and on the Hammada al Hamra strewnfield. We ask the Nom. Com. to
act
> > quickly against such behavior.
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> without too much judging on the differently motivated opinions of the
> "opponents", who raise their voices every now and then here on this
> list, let me add another example of a very beautiful meteorite, which
> now seems to be widely distributed in collections, and which NEVER EVER
> got an official acceptance by the NomCom of the Meteoritical Society in
> a Meteoritical Bulletin (well, at least not to my actual knowledge): an
> LL3 meteorite still sold under the (provisional, not official!) name of
> "Begaa". And there are other candidates in this sad game...
>
> You may answer each of the following questions to yourselves:
>
> (1) Why didnīt the early main mass holders (known to many
> of us in the case of Begaa) provide the necessary informations
> and a science sample for the meteorite to get an official
> entry for it in the Bulletin, and so finally an official name?
>
> (2) Why did they sell this (and others) under a special name,
> sounding good, and not a field name or something like that,
> at least: why didnīt they publicly say the name they choose
> for marketing was only a provisional one?
>
> Know the answer, lads and gents..?? :-)
>
> The NomCom may have tough laws, but these are very reasonable, and I
> admit I agree to what the Pelissons state in their last sentence cited
> above, though, as I said, I wonīt judge on the internal fightings that
> seem to take place between different groups out there in the field (..or
> should I say: on the Morroccan marketplaces sometimes..:-)).
>
> Any stones to be thrown here?
> Alex
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