[meteorite-list] What's in a name? Name your meteorite for fame?

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Feb 21 22:07:09 2005
Message-ID: <001e01c5188a$f9c64040$6101a8c0_at_launchmodem.com>

Hi Jeff,

>Unique (Cuba)

Is there no "Very Unique"

I just realized the perfect name:

Enigma (Georgia, USA, a small town near Tifton; pop 869)

(Look at the pop #, as in NWA 869)

-Walter

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Grossman" <jgrossman_at_usgs.gov>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What's in a name? Name your meteorite for
fame?


> Names I'd like to see for meteorites:
>
> A-lien (Taiwan)
> Avarice (after Avarice Mount, Australia)
> Expensive (after Expensive Tank, New Mexico)
> Impossible (after Impossible Canyon, Calif.)
> Pandora (New Zealand)
> Priceless (after the Priceless Mine, Ariz.)
> Stolen (Norway)
> Unique (Cuba)
> Unknown (Zimbabwe)
> Useless (after Useless Inlet, Australia)
>
> and of course, for a stone,
>
> Rosetta (UK)
>
> Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman phone: (703) 648-6184
> US Geological Survey fax: (703) 648-6383
> 954 National Center
> Reston, VA 20192, USA
>
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