[meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 2:18:11 -0400
Message-ID: <20100508021811.66GTD.303788.imail_at_fed1rmwml46>

Al,
I was told that Ash Creek was named by Mexico Doug. He recovered the first specimen at that site and sent it to Dr. Rubin with that as the name.
Nomenclature just approved the name. I have also heard that most people preferred West. But nobody asked. Is this not true?
Carl

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
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---- al mitt <almitt at kconline.com> wrote: 
> Greetings,
> 
> It will be called what the Nomenclature Committee decides to name it as 
> naming has always been done in the past. Dr. Jeff Grossman made mention the 
> name Livingston would probably not be used due to conflict with other named 
> specimens.
> 
> Best!
> 
> --AL Mitterling
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shawn Alan"
> To: Meteorite-List
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?
> 
> 
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > I think the name of the meteorite should be Livingston because wasnt that 
> > the first place a meteorite was found and the media has been talking about 
> > that town. Plus it seems like that was ground zero the first couple of 
> > days when everyone rushed into WI.
> >
> > Shawn Alan
> 
> Jeff Grossman wrote on April 17th:
> 
> I see everybody starting to call this fall "Livingston"... but this is
> not likely to be accepted as the name since there are already meteorites
> named Livingston (Montana) and Livingston (Tennessee).
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> > [meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?
> > James Balister balisterjames at att.net
> > Fri May 7 18:06:46 EDT 2010
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> > You all know that we gotta call it the Livingston strewn field.  In fact 
> > we should start a new nameing process where all meteorites that are from a 
> > strewn field should have a large S after it.  Regardless of the name of 
> > the rock. 
> 
> 
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Received on Sat 08 May 2010 02:18:11 AM PDT