[meteorite-list] ...Mali or Algeria...

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:36:03 -0500
Message-ID: <223f01c81504$4fbc92b0$b92ee146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, All

How to Name a Meteorite!

http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/nc-guidelines.htm
    "3.1 Geographic features. A new meteorite shall be
named after a nearby geographical locality. Every effort
should be made to avoid unnecessary duplication or ambiguity,
and to select a permanent feature such as a town, village, river,
bay, cape, mountain or island which appears on widely used
maps and is sufficiently close to the recovery site to convey
meaningful locality information. In sparsely populated areas
with few place names, less permanent features such as ranches
or stations or, in extreme cases, local unofficial names of
distinctive quality may be used, provided the latitude and
longitude of the recovery site are well determined. The names
of large geographic features such as continents, countries,
provinces, states, and large counties should be avoided if
names that are more specific are available, except as specified
in ?3.3 and ?3.4. In general, the selected feature should be the
closest such feature to the site of the recovery. If, for example,
the name of the nearest town is already used, the meteorite should
not be named for the next nearest town. In such a case, a different
geographic feature (e.g., a stream) should be selected, if available
(if not, ?3.3 applies)."



Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chauncey Walden" <clwaldeniii at comcast.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ...Mali or Algeria...


So, Marcin, Park Forest should be Chicago? ;-)

> I think that meteorite name should be taken from a bigger , more
> importand,
> nearest city.


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