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Martin
Postfach fast
For those of you who are disappointed in the classification, be
patient. Science sometimes takes time. I'm sure various groups will be
refining this in coming days and weeks.
Jeff
On 5/22/2012 5:25 PM, karmaka wrote:
Glad to see they stuck with Sutter's Mill as the name. In an era where we no
longer need to turn to the index in the back of a physical atlas to locate
where in it a particular meteorite was found, it is good to see the guidelines
for the name being relaxed a bit.
Steve Arnold
Host of
The guidelines were not relaxed... they were changed.
On 5/22/2012 5:32 PM, meteorh...@aol.com wrote:
Glad to see they stuck with Sutter's Mill as the name. In an era where we no
longer need to turn to the index in the back of a physical atlas to locate
where in it a particular meteorite was
Hi Steve and all!
I was a little worried. What was good, I think, was that Sutter's Mill was
already in GNIS and had a number where as some of the other locations did
not!
I am glad to see the name stuck.because that's what it is known as!
Jim
Jim Wooddell
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I personally like Sutter's Mill. It's seems appropriate since most of
the specimens were found within a mile of the old Mill site. And most
agree including the scientists there. Dan Miller
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Jeff Grossman jngross...@gmail.com wrote:
The guidelines were not
Me too Jim,
I get rebellious every once in a while and call my Ash Creeks by the name of
West since I still can't find Ash Creek in my list of Texas Post Office
locations. And since we can alter over time from that rule, it is good to see
new ones are being adapted even now.
Steve Arnold
Wow - that classification was fast, exactly one month. I guess now it needs to
be compared to the other C's and if there are three alike, perhaps a brand new
C-chondrite group.
GregS
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From: Jeff Grossman
Sent: 22 May 2012 21:31:47 GMT
To:
Hi Greg,
Wow - that classification was fast, exactly one month. I guess now it
needs to be compared to the other C's and if there are three alike,
perhaps a brand new C-chondrite group.
Don't read too much into the simple C classification. This is very
preliminary, and the classification
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Yes, that is what I meant.
On 5/22/2012 7:08 PM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:
Hi Greg,
Wow - that classification was fast, exactly one month. I guess now it
needs to be compared to the other C's and if there are three alike,
perhaps a brand new C-chondrite group.
Don't read too much into the
I personally like the Sutter's Mill name but let's not forget that Lotus has a
post office and the finds are centered closer to Lotus than to Sutter's Mill
which is in Coloma. Just so happens that the Coloma post office is right next
to Sutter's Mill. I am by no means an expert, but I would
Let's say a significant main mass was found closer to Folsom Lake, would that
change the name? Or is it based on the number known finds which has been in the
Lotus/Coloma vicinity? Does the Meteoritical Society ever change the name after
one has been established?
Based on the few in hand specimens I've seen, and under scope my fragment
collected (with crust) from Suzzane Matin's hammmer-stone (yes, the real
one) and then tempered and coupled with my complete lack of credentialed
meteorologic petrologic knowledge, yet with a sprinkling of reads (eg. all
It is important, and we really needed to get the name announced in order
not to impede science (e.g., the MetSoc abstracts are due in a matter of
days) and to end the controversy around what to call it.
If you read Zolensky's description in the bulletin, it's clear that he
thinks the
Considering the history I think Sutter's Mill is appropriate. Great PR blah
blah blah. Maybe the name of the area should be changed to Carbonaceous
whatever in honor of the meteorite? I don't care what it's called but I do hope
some new intriguing science comes from it, although I doubt that
Congrats to Jason Snyder on Stewart Valley 012. Looks like it sparked a
frenzy to get the other StV finds on the bulletins as well! I bet Dr. Rubin
is happy with that with all the work he had completed on them!
And Bravo Zulu to the NomCom and Laurence Garvie for the pro-active approach
to
Hi Jeff and List,
I think the speedy approval and publication is a great service to the
meteorite community as a whole (science and laypeople alike), because
it provides authoritative data during an event that is still
unfolding, and this might help prevent some misunderstandings or
Hey all,
I think Jeff stated it pretty clearly as far as the speed of the name
approval. I believe that this week, or even next, is the deadline for
abstracts to be submitted for the August conference in Australia, and that
is why the name was approved so quickly with a 'placeholder'
Hi Greg,
This is a very exciting meteorite, every day reveals just a little bit
more... What other meteorite has the honor of being used to calibrate
systems to be used on a spacecraft destined to return samples from an
asteroid? :)
I know they will be using a couple different Carbonaceous
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