Hello, Mark, Adam and the list,
it looks also to me, it may be a clearer way to name the new
types honouring names or so. This is a tradition in minerology.
The type can be diogenite - eucrite, but it´s called as Howardite,
or olivine - diogenite as "Bostickite".
Think it´s a good time to create a naming-tradition also for the types
of meteorites now. New types have been found, and if you check
the carbonaceus chondrites, the current tradition to give names
for the babies is not good, CV, CK, CB don´t tell much, and when
we´ll have 20 types of CC:s, it will be quite a mess, the letters will
end...in these cases we have to remember, the tradition should stay
the next several hundred years.
I suppose, we could borrow the tradition from mineralogy, the type
can be the composition of the meteorite, but it can be named in a
more clearer way, it´s same thing with the asteroids, it sounds much
nicer to talk about Vesta than A18062003.
We don´t call Alexandrite as beryllium-aluminium-oxide, and today it
would sound funny to do so outside lab. But perhaps people had more
imagination 100 years ago...
just my 2 cents again,
pekka
MARK BOSTICK wrote:
Hello Adam and list,I also agree that the group should get more concise name. Calling them "Olivine Diogenites" is like calling a Howardite a "Diogenite Eucrite". It is a the best confusing.Mark Bostick
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