[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Major NWA Update, 75 new approvals, many achondrites

From: Jeff Grossman <jngrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:56:24 -0400
Message-ID: <522BE758.6070409_at_gmail.com>

Actually, Taoudenni was approved in 2010, and the provisional name NWA
5178 was assigned in 2008. NomCom was not aware that the provisional
name and Taoudenni referred to the same meteorite until it was reported
to us this week.

Jeff

On 9/7/2013 4:38 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote:
> Hi Bulletin Watchers,
>
> There are many new approvals from the NWA dense collection area.
> There are many types, including achondrites.
>
> There is an interesting update - a provisional NWA has been
> "discredited" and removed, to be replaced with a name - Taoudenni.
>
> Taoudenni - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=51580
>
> Link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2A&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=2&pnt=Normal%20table&dr=&page=1
>
> Best regards and happy huntings,
>
> MikeG
>
Received on Sat 07 Sep 2013 10:56:24 PM PDT