[meteorite-list] NWA 801

From: Alexander Seidel <ase_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:32 2004
Message-ID: <3F369574.353E5AA9_at_planet-interkom.de>

Just curious:

Is it the classifying instituteīs responsibility to submit a completed
classification to the NomCom "in time" to get ready for future work,
or is it the responsibility of the dealer/finder/supplier to do so,
when he knows of any results from the analysing institute? Or is this
a sort of a nonsense question, from the viewpoint of the NomCom... :-)

Btw: this is, what I was thinking of when I made that P.S. remark
about that "Begaa" stone with my last post.

Alex
Berlin, Germany

Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> 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
> spring, nobody had submitted a classification to the NomCom. Perhaps is
> has come in since, but no vote has occurred. Despite the "official"
> reference, the meteorite name remains unofficial. A few abstracts in this
> conference reference unapproved meteorites. Next year, firm guidelines
> 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 itīs 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 itīs 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 itīs 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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