[meteorite-list] Mineral found in meteorite named for University of Hawaii scientist

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:43:39 -0500
Message-ID: <20110517164339.JJOX3.477982.imail_at_eastrmwml49>

Newfound mineral named for UH scientist by Jim Borg
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 17, 2011
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110517_newfound_mineral_named_for_uh_scientist.html

Kingsborough Community College Professor and Team
of Scientists Publish Paper Announcing Discovery of
New Mineral, Pr Newswire.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kingsborough-community-college-professor-and-team-of-scientists-publish-paper-announcing-discovery-of-new-mineral-121893383.html

New mineral, Krotite, named after UHM researcher
Alexander Krot, School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology at the University of Hawaii Newsletter.
http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news/attachments/pdf4415_1513.pdf

The paper is:

Ma, C., A. R. Kampf, H. C. Connolly, Jr., J. R. Beckett,
G. R. Rossman, S. A. Sweeney Smith. and D. L. Schrader,
2011, Krotite, CaAl2O4, a new refractory mineral from the
NWA 1934 meteorite. American Mineralogist. vol. 96,
no. 5-6, pp. 709-715; DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3693
http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/short/96/5-6/709

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Tue 17 May 2011 04:43:39 PM PDT