On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:31:57 -0700 (PDT), Arizona Skies Meteorites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Tom, Darren & Mark and good question. The answer, >as far as we understand it, is that a 7.5kg stone was >found sometime in 2003. It was either broken or fell >apart into pieces which were then sold. Each person >that then submits a sample from this stone for >classification is assigned a unique NWA number. Ours >is NWA 2714. So conceivably there could be 3 or 4 >different NWA numbers referring to different parts of >the same stone. It is amost exactly analogous to the >NWA 1069, NWA 1110, NWA 2373, etc set of numbers which >refer to different stones from the same fall, with the >exception that in the latter case the stones >presumably broke apart before they hit the ground. I can understand when you aren't aware or sure that a meteorite comes from a already described fall, but it seemed that you described it as if you KNEW that it was another piece of the same meteorite. I don't know how procedurally TPTB could or would go about doing it, but I wish that all the duplicate NWA numbers could be weeded out so that each seperate fall would have one and only one number and not a half dozen numbers for different pieces of it. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
