[meteorite-list] Name of Texas Fall: Ash Creek

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:50:30 +0200
Message-ID: <74F8DCA130104D9A919574B88EF54B93_at_thinkcentre>

Anyway, dear colleagues, "Ash Creek" is a distinctive and, what concerns the
evocative power, also somehow meteorite-related and not at least wonderful
paradox name.

With this in mind: welcome, Ash Creek!

My best,

Matthias Baermann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Grossman" <jgrossman at usgs.gov>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Name of Texas Fall: Ash Creek


> I'm told that 'West' will be made a synonym. The NomCom hasn't done this
> formally at this time.
>
> I agree that names of falls should be decided asap. I used to try to do
> this when I was in a position to do so.
>
> Often, the name that gets priority is the one suggested by the initial
> finder. The rule is that it has to be "named after a nearby geographical
> locality."
>
> jeff
>
> At 12:01 PM 4/16/2009, Mark Ford wrote:
>> Steve has a point there, is the new name cross correlated in some way
>>with 'West' in the actual database? (It just came up as Ash Creek when I
>>searched). - Just worries me it's a great way to loose a few thousand
>>specimens of a fall, if in the future you can't cross correlate the
>>label names!
>>
>>I also wonder if there was any way a name could be officially assigned
>>at the time of a fall rather than several months after it's recovered?
>>
>>Out of interest, is the name that's given the nearest place/town to the
>>first recovery, or to the majority location of the finds? How's it
>>decided?
>>
>>Best,
>>Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Sent: 16 April 2009 16:45
>>To: jgrossman at usgs.gov; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Name of Texas Fall: Ash Creek
>>
>>Jeff,
>>
>>Does the Nomenclature Committed assign "official synonyms" such as West
>>as
>>well?
>>
>>As they say, it is hard to get the toothpaste back in the tube once it
>>is
>>out.
>>
>>Steve Arnold
>>Arkansas
>>
>>
>>
>>In a message dated 4/16/2009 8:02:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>>jgrossman at usgs.gov writes:
>>I just wanted everybody on the list to know that the Nomenclature
>>Committee has approved the name of the recent fall near West,
>>Texas. It will have the official name "Ash Creek". See this and 38
>>other recent approvals at:
>>http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/ (use the What's New pulldown menu).
>>
>>jeff
>>
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