(None of them is "Meteor Crater"!)
jeff
At 06:53 AM 5/11/2005, Roman Jirasek wrote:
Many collectors have been asking me to make an "Amgala" label this year. My answer has always been, "I won't until the info is official".
But even now, I will wait for the final bulletin publication before I proceed. Maybe then the TKW will have been updated.
Roman Jirasek www.meteoritelabels.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? / New Bulletin
> This happens all the time with meteorites that get on the market before > they come to the NomCom. It's just a fact of life. If a meteorite is > found halfway between towns, then usually the person who submits it to us > chooses. Hyphenated names are only used in special circumstances (there > will be one announced this week where pieces fell on both sides of an > international border). We give a lot of deference in choosing names to the > person or team that first classifies it as long as the name is reasonable > and appropriate. > > 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 :)) > > > >-----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- > >http://www.Meteoryt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.PolandMET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM +48(607)535 195 > >--------[ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ]-------- > > > >______________________________________________ > >Meteorite-list mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman phone: (703) 648-6184 > US Geological Survey fax: (703) 648-6383 > 954 National Center > Reston, VA 20192, USA > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >
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