Hey Doug,
I don't know what grapevine you've been smoking, but I highly doubt that
the NomCom would accept bribes to get a meteorite deemed "official".
Besides, the only way to tell if it's "official" is by looking at the
MetBull; as Jeff G. wrote, "If it's not there, it's not an official
name, period, no exceptions." He also said the following concerning
provisional names: "Also, the journals MAPS and GCA have a policy that
should prevent publication of scientific reports on these specimens." I
would defer to these statements by the then-acting Editor of the
Meteoritical Bulletin, and discount what you heard through the grapevine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hola Mark, A name is official when you are allowed to use it in a
Meteoritical Society publication, right? I would suspect the only way the NomCom is
going to give advance approval via magic emails, is if you promise you are
working on a peer-reviewed paper for publication in a scientific journal
especially MAPS, and need an approved name for your rock, and have the don to
convince them. I heard through the grapevine, however, that those magic emails were
also available to commercial dealers with no publications, one of the
amounts of: an additional 5 grams or 5% type specimen contribution, or $500 to the
endowment, as long as it isn't the smallest of the three. Saludos, Doug
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