There are thousands of synonyms for meteorite out there. Amgala will be another. It won't be used in the scientific literature, but it will get in all the databases.
Jeff
At 03:54 PM 5/10/2005, Meteoryt.net wrote:
> Amgala was the provisional working name for Oum Dreyga. The meteorite fell > between Amgala and Oum Dreyga in the country of Western Sahara. It was > determined later on to have fallen closer to Oum Dreyga than Amgala thus the > new name. The coordinates were provided by us from the beginning and do > plot closer to Oum Dreyga. If you dig through the archives you will see we > even provided a map. NAU was working on this material from the beginning and > would have also called it Oum Dreyga. It doesn't matter either way because > it is now formerly classified.
OK. Unfortunatelly we have here two worlds. World of science and comercial world. Unfortunatelly science world make rules here :)
So what will happend if strewfield will be in half way beetween 2 towns ? It will have name of town closer to bigger specimens or not ? :)) Or we will be have X-Y like Gao-Guenie ? :))
Its for me little funny now. One meteorite will be have now 2 names. Official and unofficial. I only hope that noone will return Amgala purchased from me becouse its not Oum Dreyga :))
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