Dear Don and List Members,
We received a great deal of input from list members
regarding the naming of this group and appreciate it greatly. After an
exhaustive consensus it appears the name Olivine Diogenite that was coined on
the Antarctic finds has stuck. The main thing is that scientists who were
unaware of this type of meteorite now know of its existence because of the two
recent finds from Northwest Africa. I addressed this issue in a previous
posting to the list so I will not go into great detail on this
post.
It would have been nice to honor some pioneer in
meteoritics but the term"Olivine Diogenite" has been used in several
publications so changing the name now might cause more confusion regarding this
new main group. The cool thing is that this is being recognized as a new
group expanding theHED group to HEDO. The HED designation has not
been changed for centuries making this, in our opinion, a history making
event.
Again, thank you everybody who tried to help out in
regards to this subject.
All the best,
Adam HUpe
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Subject: New group name for Olivine
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Hi Adam, Greg, and List.
I would like to propose my thoughts to
several names for this new meteorite group. Now that NWA 1877 has been
determined to be the 5th Olivine-Diogenite along with NWA 1459,
ALHA-77252, EETA 79002, andGRA 98108 we all have a chance to express
our ideas of naming this new group, which is very exciting. It is to my
understanding that the HED group comes from the same parent body most
likely the asteroid Vesta.Well how is this so known. It is known through
the science of spectroscopy discovered in 1859 by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.With many thanks to Joeseph von Fraunhofer who
observed in the early 1800's that the continous spectrum was marred by
over 700 dark lines now called Fraunhofer lines. Lets not forget that the
first person to use the technique of spectroscopy to examine celestial
objects was William Huggins in 1863,but lets go back to where this
truely started and that was in 1666. By one of the most famous scientist
of all time. It was Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of the spectrum that all
advancements of spectoscopy are the underlying use of this important
discovery.It is through Spectroscopythat has helped determine the
composition of this HED group to the parent bodyVesta, and other
meteorite parent bodies such asthe asteroidsCeres, Pallas,
Hebe, ect. Though these scientists were not directly related to meteorites
in general, they have truelylayed down the foundation for the study
of meteorites today. If not for spectroscopy we would not know where this
HED group came from as well as others in the first place. In fact if not
for spectroscopy this contest naming this new Olivine-Diogenite group
might not well exist!! I feel and it's only my opinion-that this group be
named for one of these great scientist's who should be honored for their
great achievment in helping today's scientist match parent bodies to many
of the meteorite's in our collections at home.So in closing and in order
from my first choice to last I propose to call this new group NEWTONITES,
then, FRAUNHOFERNITES, then KIRCHOFF-BUNSONITES, and last but not least
with special thanks to William Huggins for being the firstusing the
spectroscope toward the heavens. What an honor for him to have this group
call HUGGINITES.
Thanks all for your time.
Don Merchant
