[meteorite-list] NWA 7034

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:04:05 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1359162245.37233.YahooMailClassic_at_web142505.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

--- On Fri, 1/25/13, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
> Lets make it simple.
> Now we can have:
> Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia.
>
> Simple as that.


Okay! We're settled, then: AMBB it will be!

(Sorry, Anne, I couldn't resist;-)

But seriously, folks. Consider the following:

"martian meteorites" - Martian meteorites are martian rocks that were ejected from Mars by impacts and later fell to the Earth as meteorites.
The well-known types are
S saharaites (basaltic clasts in a porphyritic groundmass)
shergottites (basaltic to lherzolitic igneous rocks),
N nakhlites (clinopyroxenites)
C chassignites (dunitic cumulate rocks)
A ALH 84001(orthopyroxenites)

Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Bob V.

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> From: Anne Black <impactika at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
> To: agee at unm.edu, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 11:33 AM
>
> Please,
> No, no more acronyms!
> The world is being invaded by those meaningless,
> un-translatable monstrosities.
> Lets make it simple.
> We have had for a long time such a thing as:
> Achondrite Eucrite Polymict Breccia.
> Now we can have:
> Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia.
>
> Simple as that.
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu>
> To: meteoritelist meteoritelist <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 9:33 am
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> Now that you are at NASA you can appreciate the perverse
> things people
> do with words just to come up with a cool acronym. Making
> the new
> Martian meteorite acronym even half way cool requires some
> drastic
> measures, like giving NWA 7034 Basaltic Breccia Black Beauty
> a new
> name based on locality: I propose "saharaite". So we now
> have the
> meteorites from Mars or "SCANS"
>
> S: shergottite
> C: chassignite
> A: ALH 84001
> N: nakhlite
> S: saharaite
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Carl Agee
>
>
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> Message: 19
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:43:04 -0500
> From: Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <5102A808.5040709 at gmail.com>
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>
> Don't forget ALH 84001, the pyroxenite.
>
> SNCPB?
>
> If we use the N from NWA instead of B, and the A from ALH,
> how about
> CANNS?
>
> Or maybe we should just do the sensible thing and call them
> Martian
> meteorites?
>
> Jeff
>
> On 1/24/2013 4:42 PM, hall at meteorhall.com
> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >? ???I like the "SNCB". It sounds
> like a radio station's call
> letters...Stay
> > tuned for all of your Martian meteorite news from
> SNCB.
> > Regards, Fred H.
> >
> >> How shall we organize the new class of Martian?
> >>
> >> Until now it has been SNC
> >>
> >> How about B or B squared for BASALTIC BRECCIA ?
> >>
> >> SNCB
> >>
> >> What say you all?
> >>
> >> -Paul Gessler
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