On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:27:31 EDT, you wrote: >He asked me in an email, if maybe the meteorite might be >able to be named after him if it was found. Now, I am not sure if such a >"bribe" was actually offered to him, or if his ego was maybe puffed up a >bit by being made to think that his contribution to some of us really made >him important enough to warrant the rock being named after him?
Probably simple ignorance of how meteorites are named. You discover a comet, it is named after you. You discover an asteroid or plutazoid, you get to name it (within guidelines). ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
