Can someone please clarify why this is listed as a Brachinite instead of Diogenite?
Based on the composition being 90% olivine, should this not be listed as a dunitic diogenite? Mendy Ouzillou >________________________________ > From: Fabien Kuntz <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:09 PM >Subject: [meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare > > >Hello, > > > >because may of you asked about the statut of NWA 6435 on the Bulletin, here is >the story (it have been discussed on the list with Norbert Kammel during the >summer, the 9 jully, remember) : > >Maybe Jeff Grossman will explain this a different way (because at this time I >have not understand all what happened), but I have a brachinite (now is the >official NWA 5435) was for a time missnamed as NWA 6435 (this was the name I >recieved from the classifier) ! > > >So during a time, this meteorite had two provisionnal names (NWA 5435 and NWA >6435, close in look, easy mistake) ! > >At the same time the NWA 5435 number have been assigned too, to a stone of >Norbert Kammel, a chondrite (this is what was discussed on the list on early >july). > > >The official for my brachinite was choosed as NWA 5435 (it is now OFFICIAL on >the Bulletin), and the Norbert chondrite was reassigned as NWA 3999... > >last year, I submitted to Tony Irving a new stone (working name K091 for >Kuntz091), after preliminary work on it of Jean-Alix Barrat, and the NWA 6435 >was finally reassigned to this new stone, the unbrecciated diogenite I >introduced today. > > >OK for me this is a NIGHTMARE, I just did what I had to did, and now I have to >writte here a real novel to explain what happen, and collectors possibly >interesting in slices of this meteorite maybe will be suspicious ! > >I suppose I have to wait (month, years?) for this mistake was corrected on the >Bulletin... > >Fabien > > >Fabien Kuntz >Météorites (ventes, expertise, conférences) >Animation scientifique et technique >WWMETEORITES (Siret : 511 850 612 00017) >www.wwmeteorites.com >______________________________________________ > >Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
