[meteorite-list] NWA 801

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:32 2004
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030810142810.01e75328_at_gsvaresm02.er.usgs.gov>

This meteorite is listed in the Provisional Names page:
http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/prov-names.html

It appears to be a Farmer meteorite with type specimen at UCLA. As of last=
=20
spring, nobody had submitted a classification to the NomCom. Perhaps is=20
has come in since, but no vote has occurred. Despite the "official"=20
reference, the meteorite name remains unofficial. A few abstracts in this=
=20
conference reference unapproved meteorites. Next year, firm guidelines=20
will be in place that we hope will prevent this from happening any more.

jeff

At 08:18 PM 8/10/2003 +0200, Alexander Seidel wrote:
>This meteorite is also missing in the very latest update of MetBase,
>version 6.0, just a few days ago released by it=B4s author Joern
>Koblitz, who is one of the members of the NomCom of the Meteoritical
>Society. In fact, there is a gap in the NWA datasets counting from NWA
>780 to NWA 816, and there are probably other gaps, too, in all the
>numbers known so far. This surely is for good reason and perhaps Jeff
>Grossman may comment on this, if he likes to do so.
>
>Alex
>Berlin, Germany
>
>P.S., on a side note: I wonder why that meteorite once inofficially
>sold under the name of "Begaa" never found it=B4s way into the official
>list of the NomCom, very probably as some new NWA xxxx. Something went
>badly wrong, as the main mass holders recently told me this was
>classified to be an LL3.2 (!) by a well-known scientist in Paris, but
>despite the fact that there is a big TKW and this meteorite seems to
>be widely distributed in collections (by virtue of it=B4s beauty with
>all those pristine chondrules alone, similar to e.g. Krymka), nobody
>seems to have really cared to make this available to the scientific
>field, which, of course, and for good reasons again, only accepts
>material that has been accepted by the NomCom.
>
>Sharkkb8_at_aol.com wrote:
> >
> > NWA 801 is available as a CR2, and looks like a pretty and
> > interesting meteorite - but unless I'm missing something, it still
> > has not been officially recognized in a MetSoc Bulletin. I did
> > find an "official" mention of it here:
> >
> > http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2003/pdf/5238.pdf
> >
> > .....but it's just that specimens were studied for a copper isotope
> > examination, listed as part of the 66th Annual MetSoc meeting in
> > 2003.
> >
> > The 801 number would suggest it goes back to 2001 or so, anyone know
> > why it seems to have been passed over for official
> > recognition/publication? Also wanting to know who classified it,
> > and when, and where....?
> >
> > Thanks -
> >
> > Gregory
>
>
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Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman
Chair, Meteorite Nomenclature Committee (Meteoritical Society)
US Geological Survey
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Reston, VA 20192, USA
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Received on Sun 10 Aug 2003 02:34:45 PM PDT