[meteorite-list] Zapotectite- what kinda name is that?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:41:06 -0400
Message-ID: <20110528164106.ZF28O.679414.imail_at_fed1rmwml40>

Brian,
This is great news and very interesting news. . Povenmire does not name them in the paper posted previously found here;

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1224.pdf

But another paper I saw calls them Belizean tektites and tikal tektites. They say some were found in Mayan Ruins?
I like your names better.
Do you have any pictures to post?
Would love to see them.
Thanks.
Carl

---- brian burrer <brimane at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my previous post I referred to the new tektites from Belize as"
> Zapotectites". Geologist Jean Cornec is the one that perhaps should
> name them as his unpublished paper and its appearance on a website is
> the start of the new strewnfield's recognition. I noticed the paper
> about a month after posting. When I informed Hal Povenmire of the
> posting he quickly published on the subject and referred to them as
> Central American tektites. That is a fine name but we don't refer to
> the Central European tektites as such but instead as Moldavite (Czechs
> use Vlatavine). In a much earlier posting I made this year I had
> called the new tektites "Mayanites" because the first discoveries in
> Guatemala and Belize were all in the greater Mayan influence. But
> "Mayanite" is used as part of a name for something referred to as
> "Mayanite Rainbow Quartz". Perhaps a good common name should refer to
> the particular subset of Maya in the tektite region, namely the
> Zapotec. "Zapotectite", or perhaps more correctly "Zapotecite" would
> then be a possible moniker for the new discoveries. I just use it
> because it fits for me; time and common usage will be the ultimate
> dictator.
>
> Happy hunting,
> Brian
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