[meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:12:18 -0600
Message-ID: <CADYrzhqY3Rjie_cP0FGwTLKNYGt5vpFvLi++gD1OVYkYNvdzgg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Mendy,
Not to meddle in other people's classifications, but to me the
geochemistry and mineralogy does look like a brachinite and not a
diogenite.
Carl

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzillou at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Can someone please clarify why this is listed as a Brachinite instead of Diogenite?
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> Based on the composition being 90% olivine, should this not be listed as a dunitic diogenite?
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> Mendy Ouzillou
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>> From: Fabien Kuntz <wwmeteorites at yahoo.com>
>>To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:09 PM
>>Subject: [meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare
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>>Hello,
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>>because may of you asked about the statut of NWA 6435 on the Bulletin, here is the story (it have been discussed on the list with Norbert Kammel during the summer, the 9 jully, remember) :
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>>Maybe Jeff Grossman will explain this a different way (because at this time I have not understand all what happened), but I have a brachinite (now is the official NWA 5435) was for a time missnamed as NWA 6435 (this was the name I recieved from the classifier) !
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>>So during a time, this meteorite had two provisionnal names (NWA 5435 and NWA 6435, close in look, easy mistake) !
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>>At the same time the NWA 5435 number have been assigned too, to a stone of Norbert Kammel, a chondrite (this is what was discussed on the list on early july).
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>>The official for my brachinite was choosed as NWA 5435 (it is now OFFICIAL on the Bulletin), and the Norbert chondrite was reassigned as NWA 3999...
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>>last year, I submitted to Tony Irving a new stone (working name K091 for Kuntz091), after preliminary work on it of Jean-Alix Barrat, and the NWA 6435 was finally reassigned to this new stone, the unbrecciated diogenite I introduced today.
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>>OK for me this is a NIGHTMARE, I just did what I had to did, and now I have to writte here a real novel to explain what happen, and collectors possibly interesting in slices of this meteorite maybe will be suspicious !
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>>I suppose I have to wait (month, years?) for this mistake was corrected on the Bulletin...
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>>Fabien
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