[meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? / New Bulletin

From: Roman Jirasek <rom_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 10 18:48:26 2005
Message-ID: <022a01c55617$b6583dc0$b47ba8c0_at_meteoritelabels.com>

Many collectors have been asking me to make an "Amgala" label this year.
My answer has always been, "I won't until the info is official".

But even now, I will wait for the final bulletin publication before I
proceed.
Maybe then the TKW will have been updated.

Roman Jirasek
www.meteoritelabels.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Grossman" <jgrossman_at_usgs.gov>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? / New Bulletin


> This happens all the time with meteorites that get on the market before
> they come to the NomCom. It's just a fact of life. If a meteorite is
> found halfway between towns, then usually the person who submits it to us
> chooses. Hyphenated names are only used in special circumstances (there
> will be one announced this week where pieces fell on both sides of an
> international border). We give a lot of deference in choosing names to
the
> person or team that first classifies it as long as the name is reasonable
> and appropriate.
>
> There are thousands of synonyms for meteorite out there. Amgala will be
> another. It won't be used in the scientific literature, but it will get
in
> all the databases.
>
> Jeff
>
> At 03:54 PM 5/10/2005, Meteoryt.net wrote:
>
> > > Amgala was the provisional working name for Oum Dreyga. The meteorite
> >fell
> > > between Amgala and Oum Dreyga in the country of Western Sahara. It
was
> > > determined later on to have fallen closer to Oum Dreyga than Amgala
thus
> >the
> > > new name. The coordinates were provided by us from the beginning and
do
> > > plot closer to Oum Dreyga. If you dig through the archives you will
see
> >we
> > > even provided a map. NAU was working on this material from the
beginning
> >and
> > > would have also called it Oum Dreyga. It doesn't matter either way
> >because
> > > it is now formerly classified.
> >
> >OK.
> >Unfortunatelly we have here two worlds.
> >World of science and comercial world. Unfortunatelly science world make
> >rules here :)
> >
> >So what will happend if strewfield will be in half way beetween 2 towns ?
It
> >will have name of town closer to bigger specimens or not ? :)) Or we will
be
> >have X-Y like Gao-Guenie ? :))
> >
> >Its for me little funny now. One meteorite will be have now 2 names.
> >Official and unofficial.
> >I only hope that noone will return Amgala purchased from me becouse its
not
> >Oum Dreyga :))
> >
> >-----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]-----
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