[meteorite-list] Silly-sounding Meteorite Names

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 20:27:35 +0200
Message-ID: <2DCA5793CC3F461E8A0BD0D4A9A4CA88_at_thinkcentre>

"Needmore" seems to be kind of universal meteorite name, Anne. Sometimes,
after a glimpse in your portemonnaie, it changes towards E.A. Poe's poem
'The Raven' and its refrain: "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'" .

Best,
Matthias

>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Silly-sounding Meteorite Names
>> From: Impactika at aol.com
>> Date: Fri, September 02, 2011 2:50 am
>> To: mexicodoug at aim.com, parkforestmet at hotmail.com, mikestang at gmail.com
>> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>
>>
>> But if you want a more appropriate name, you have Needmore, a chondrite,
>> found in Texas in 1976.
>> But, sorry, only one mass of less that 2 kilos.
>> And No, I don't have any.
>>
>> Anne M. Black
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>>
>> In a message dated 9/2/2011 12:25:21 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>> mexicodoug at aim.com writes:
>> Bill wrote:
>>
>> "Is there any meteorite name that can really be tagged as being
>> frivolous?"
>>
>> I vote for the 1944 fall, "Mike", as the silliest meteorite name of all
>> time.
>>
>> (just so the Mike Web Ring doesn't go after me, let me specify, it is
>> for Mike G since he started the thread!)
>>
>> Seriously, there is one frivolous name IMO,
>>
>> "Santiago Papasquiero"
>>
>> One letter was in error somewhere in the naming process, probably as
>> submitted by Chuck Lewis to the meteoritical bulletin in Moscow. He
>> was the Curator at the time of the ASU meteorite collection. It almost
>> seems it was done on purpose...
>>
>> In the original language, a fusion of Spanish and Tepehuan (Nahuatl)
>> language, it meant,
>>
>> "The Preists of the Temple of the Eagles"
>>
>> Talk about meteoritical butchery ;-)
>>
>> It now means when translated,
>>
>> "James I want potatoes."
>>
>> Kindest wishes
>> Doug
>>
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