[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Updates - 2 NWA's and a Nova, and a Question regarding Nomenclature
From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:49 +0200 Message-ID: <001701cd2159$804d2dc0$80e78940$_at_de> Hi Jeff, should Paris then not rather have been named a "Nova" too than a "Paris"? (From the Bulletin Database: "Paris Unknown location" (......) "History: This sample was in an auction box lot bought by Jean-Jacques Corr? at the Hotel des Ventes in Paris. The box was part of the estate of Jean Simon Colonna-Cimera, an "Ing?nieur des Mines," who supervised mines in foreign countries and in the French Colonies. Corr? thought that the stone might be a meteorite but kept it for 7 years before attempting to have it identified." Martin -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff Grossman Gesendet: Montag, 23. April 2012 13:46 An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Updates - 2 NWA's and a Nova, and a Question regarding Nomenclature The way it works is that meteorites are named based on how much certainty we have about where they come from. When we think the coordinates are accurate, we can name them after very local features. For things like NWA and Sahara meteorites, we have some confidence that they come from northwest Africa and the Sahara in general, but not much more than that. The hallmark of the Nova series is that we don't have any good information about where they were found, or, in some of the early ones, we thought that information was false. Nova 011 simply turned up in a market in Russia.There is no accompanying find story. Perhaps it's from Russia, perhaps it's an NWA, who knows. If there was some kind of find story indicating a local origin, we might have named it differently, perhaps South Russia or something like that. Jeff Received on Mon 23 Apr 2012 10:00:49 AM PDT |
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