[meteorite-list] NWA 869 - Where are the reports?

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Sep 27 08:33:44 2004
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040927082412.01e74438_at_gsvaresm02.er.usgs.gov>

You will find these meteorites on our list of PROVISIONAL names:

http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/prov-names.html

This means that either:

1) Nobody has submitted a formal description to the Committee;
2) The meteorite name has been rejected by the Committee (e.g., because of
insufficient type specimen, poor classification data, etc.); or
3) The meteorite is currently under consideration for a formal name.

(2) is not the case here. I'll look into whether it's (1) or (3).

jeff

At 02:30 PM 9/26/2004, G?ran Axelsson wrote:
>Hello list!
>
>I was looking for research done on NWA 869 since I have bought
>some pieces that I believe is paired with this one and I want to learn
>more about it. Finally I ended up at the Meteoritical Society master
>index between 1957 and 2002.
>I believed that the society was THE clearinghouse for names on
>meteorites but to my surprise there is a large gap of missing NWA
>numbers from 867 to 899. Is this because the reports isn't ready
>yet, publiced in some different place or is there another reason?
>
>As I understand it UCLA have made two analyses with different
>classifications. No strange in that, just interesting, but I haven't
>seen any referenses to any scientific report. Why?
>For one of the most commonly available chondrites there seems
>to be very little research done on it.
>
>Could someone give me a pointer to a report or some reference?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>I guess that I'm in the "Every meteorite is cool" camp. :-)
>
>G?ran
>
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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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