Dont forget ALH84001! Call them SNACL. Or better, just Martian meteorites.
aht Allan H. Treiman Senior Staff Scientist Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston, TX 77058-1113 281-486-2117 281-486-2162 (FAX) -----Original Message----- From: Matson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:58 PM To: 'David Weir'; Norbert Classen Cc: Meteorite Mailing List Subject: [meteorite-list] Lherzolites -- expand SNC to SNCL? Hi David, Norbert and List, David inquired: > I wonder why it is still the convention to name this Martian group > "lherzolitic shergottites". Although this geochemical group was > historically included as a subgroup within the shergottite class, > and therefore its members were called lherzolitic shergottites (or > shergottitic peridotites), there is no genetic relationship between > the basaltic and lherzolitic subgroups. The term "lherzolites" was > proposed by Eugster and Polnau in 1997 to represent this unique > group of Martian meteorites. Perhaps some day we'll expand SNC (snick) to SNCL (snickle/snickel). At least it would maintain a pronounceable acronym. ;-) --Rob ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
