[meteorite-list] AD - A FEW DANDYS

From: David Weir <dgweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat May 21 08:16:57 2005
Message-ID: <428F2668.5030104_at_earthlink.net>

Hey Doug,

I don't know what grapevine you've been smoking, but I highly doubt that
the NomCom would accept bribes to get a meteorite deemed "official".
Besides, the only way to tell if it's "official" is by looking at the
MetBull; as Jeff G. wrote, "If it's not there, it's not an official
name, period, no exceptions." He also said the following concerning
provisional names: "Also, the journals MAPS and GCA have a policy that
should prevent publication of scientific reports on these specimens." I
would defer to these statements by the then-acting Editor of the
Meteoritical Bulletin, and discount what you heard through the grapevine.


MexicoDoug_at_aol.com wrote:

> Hola Mark, A name is official when you are allowed to use it in a
> Meteoritical Society publication, right? I would suspect the only way the NomCom is
> going to give advance approval via magic emails, is if you promise you are
> working on a peer-reviewed paper for publication in a scientific journal
> especially MAPS, and need an approved name for your rock, and have the don to
> convince them. I heard through the grapevine, however, that those magic emails were
> also available to commercial dealers with no publications, one of the
> amounts of: an additional 5 grams or 5% type specimen contribution, or $500 to the
> endowment, as long as it isn't the smallest of the three. Saludos, Doug
>
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