If Needmore is a problem, you can get on the wagon to Needless ...
(Needles, an iron found in 1962, by Spike)
http://www.schulzmuseum.org/images/spike.jpg
http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/Spike's_cactus
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Impactika <[email protected]>
To: mexicodoug <[email protected]>; parkforestmet
<[email protected]>; mikestang <[email protected]>
Cc: meteorite-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 3:50 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Silly-sounding Meteorite Names
But if you want a more appropriate name, you have Needmore, a
chondrite,
found in Texas in 1976.
But, sorry, only one mass of less that 2 kilos.
And No, I don't have any.
Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 9/2/2011 12:25:21 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Bill wrote:
"Is there any meteorite name that can really be tagged as being
frivolous?"
I vote for the 1944 fall, "Mike", as the silliest meteorite name of all
time.
(just so the Mike Web Ring doesn't go after me, let me specify, it is
for Mike G since he started the thread!)
Seriously, there is one frivolous name IMO,
"Santiago Papasquiero"
One letter was in error somewhere in the naming process, probably as
submitted by Chuck Lewis to the meteoritical bulletin in Moscow. He
was the Curator at the time of the ASU meteorite collection. It almost
seems it was done on purpose...
In the original language, a fusion of Spanish and Tepehuan (Nahuatl)
language, it meant,
"The Preists of the Temple of the Eagles"
Talk about meteoritical butchery ;-)
It now means when translated,
"James I want potatoes."
Kindest wishes
Doug
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