Personally, I count each specimen when talking about how many unique meteorites are in my collection. Then again, you are talking about localities and when I talk about how many meteorites I have its usually how many I have and not where they came from. Best wishes, Rhett Bourland www.asteroidmodels.com www.asteroidmodels.com/personal
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Devine Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA's and Counting Localities Dear List: I want to sit down soon and count the number of localities in my collection. It's a modest number, but in recent years I've purchased quite a few classified NWA meteorites and I'm wondering: do I count each classified specimen as a separate locality ( and if I have 2 with different numbers but I know they're paired I would count that as one locality ), or is it more "honest" or is it even a convention to simply lump all my different NWA's together and count them all as one locality? When I try to think this out I keep coming up with arguments for both approaches. It seems silly to lump a lunar with an L6 but classification and locality are 2 different things and with no, or very few, GPS coordinates for any of them maybe lumping them all together as one vast locality is correct? Any thoughts on what may seem a "splitting-hairs" question? Thanking you in advance, Charlie Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund - http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/058-5084202-71 56648 _______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund - http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/058-5084202-7156648 _______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
