Frank,
I believe you missed the point of my post. I don't place any blame with
the NomCom for an incorrect spelling for Lake Okeechobee recorded back
in 1916, before the MetSoc NomCom even existed (1933), it's that I don't
suspect there were all that many names to type into whatever official
record existed in 1916, and being the first meteorite to be recorded
from Florida, I'm just curious how something of such apparent importance
got screwed up... back then. I am wondering about the wheels of the
system of that time, and how this spelling error was allowed to
propagate instead of being caught and corrected - by a secretary or
somebody - before it became the "official" record. Certainly a number of
people had to approve of this name along its way to officialdom, likely
some from Okeechobee too. Heck, I may even have erors in spelling in
this post, but then this is not going to be a historic record of any
significance like the name of the first meteorite to be found in the
state of Florida. At what point did the name Okechobee cross the
continuum and become uncorrectable? It's a matter for history and those
of us who have an issue with the misspelling of the name of one of only
four meteorites known from our home state. Anyway, this was my point,
but thanks for defending the MetSoc reputation about my post.
David
DavidFrank Prochaska wrote:
Frankly, with the thousands of "official" meteorites from hundreds
of states and countries in which scores of languages are spoken which are
written in a number of alphabets and syllabaries (sp? - looking for the word
for methods of writing like kanji, not really an alphabet), let alone issues
like ancient American Indian place names in locations where the primary
language is English, it's a wonder little errors like this are not much more
common. I think the NomCom does a wonderful job, given their scope,
resources, and circumstances.
Frank Prochaska
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Wolf Creek total mass
Herbert Raab wrote:
Bob WALKER writes:
Defintely WOLFE Creek with an e
At least the Western Australian government and a map says so...
they can't all be wrong can they hmmm
They can be wrong. The place may well be named Wolfe Creek (with "e"),
but the meteorite is oficially named Wolf Creek (without "e").
Wolfe Creek is not even registered as a synonym.
I guess that's a bit like the official NomCom misspelling of the Lake
"Okeechobee", FL meteorite, the meteorite incorrectly spelled Okechobee,
and no synonyms listed either. It makes you wonder how such a thing
occurred.
David
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