Please,
No, no more acronyms!
The world is being invaded by those meaningless, un-translatable monstrosities.
Lets make it simple.
We have had for a long time such a thing as: Achondrite Eucrite Polymict Breccia.
Now we can have: Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia.

Simple as that.

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Agee <[email protected]>
To: meteoritelist meteoritelist <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 9:33 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034


Jeff,

Now that you are at NASA you can appreciate the perverse things people
do with words just to come up with a cool acronym. Making the new
Martian meteorite acronym even half way cool requires some drastic
measures, like giving NWA 7034 Basaltic Breccia Black Beauty a new
name based on locality: I propose "saharaite". So we now have the
meteorites from Mars or "SCANS"

S: shergottite
C: chassignite
A: ALH 84001
N: nakhlite
S: saharaite

Enjoy!

Carl Agee


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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:43:04 -0500
From: Jeff Grossman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Don't forget ALH 84001, the pyroxenite.

SNCPB?

If we use the N from NWA instead of B, and the A from ALH, how about CANNS?

Or maybe we should just do the sensible thing and call them Martian
meteorites?

Jeff

On 1/24/2013 4:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Paul,
I like the "SNCB". It sounds like a radio station's call
letters...Stay
tuned for all of your Martian meteorite news from SNCB.
Regards, Fred H.

How shall we organize the new class of Martian?

Until now it has been SNC

How about B or B squared for BASALTIC BRECCIA ?

SNCB

What say you all?

-Paul Gessler
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