[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Updates - 2 NWA's and a Nova, and a Question regarding Nomenclature

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:20:21 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW-qZSWCMcr3mzuFty9gzuGMOTZWLbriHChW9p76nTP4EQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Greetings Bulletin Geeks,

There are 3 new approvals today. Two NWA's - a CK5 and L5. And one
new "Nova" find - an iron from Russia.

Question - it has been my understanding that Nova names are reserved
for those meteorites with dubious location data. So, why is it that
many of the Labenne finds have not been renamed as Nova finds? And
this new Russian iron seems to have find data similar to the majority
of NWA's, so why aren't more NWA's classified as Novas? Is it because
there are just too many NWA's?

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=1&pnt=Normal%20table&dr=&page=0

Best regards,

MikeG

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Received on Fri 20 Apr 2012 12:20:21 PM PDT