This meteorite is listed in the Provisional Names page: http://meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/prov-names.html
It appears to be a Farmer meteorite with type specimen at UCLA. As of last spring, nobody had submitted a classification to the NomCom. Perhaps is has come in since, but no vote has occurred. Despite the "official" reference, the meteorite name remains unofficial. A few abstracts in this conference reference unapproved meteorites. Next year, firm guidelines will be in place that we hope will prevent this from happening any more.
jeff
At 08:18 PM 8/10/2003 +0200, Alexander Seidel wrote:
This meteorite is also missing in the very latest update of MetBase, version 6.0, just a few days ago released by it�s author Joern Koblitz, who is one of the members of the NomCom of the Meteoritical Society. In fact, there is a gap in the NWA datasets counting from NWA 780 to NWA 816, and there are probably other gaps, too, in all the numbers known so far. This surely is for good reason and perhaps Jeff Grossman may comment on this, if he likes to do so.
Alex Berlin, Germany
P.S., on a side note: I wonder why that meteorite once inofficially sold under the name of "Begaa" never found it�s way into the official list of the NomCom, very probably as some new NWA xxxx. Something went badly wrong, as the main mass holders recently told me this was classified to be an LL3.2 (!) by a well-known scientist in Paris, but despite the fact that there is a big TKW and this meteorite seems to be widely distributed in collections (by virtue of it�s beauty with all those pristine chondrules alone, similar to e.g. Krymka), nobody seems to have really cared to make this available to the scientific field, which, of course, and for good reasons again, only accepts material that has been accepted by the NomCom.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NWA 801 is available as a CR2, and looks like a pretty and > interesting meteorite - but unless I'm missing something, it still > has not been officially recognized in a MetSoc Bulletin. I did > find an "official" mention of it here: > > http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2003/pdf/5238.pdf > > .....but it's just that specimens were studied for a copper isotope > examination, listed as part of the 66th Annual MetSoc meeting in > 2003. > > The 801 number would suggest it goes back to 2001 or so, anyone know > why it seems to have been passed over for official > recognition/publication? Also wanting to know who classified it, > and when, and where....? > > Thanks - > > Gregory
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