Hi Michael and all,

Actually you are wrong. Obviously the original submitter gets a say or else how do they choose the name?! And yes... the Nom Com gets the final say but they need the recommendations to start with and that comes from the submitting party. I recommend you read Jeff Grossman's post regarding West/Ash Creek:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-April/051836.html

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Blood" <mlbl...@cox.net> To: "Jeff Kuyken" <i...@meteorites.com.au>; "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?


Hi Jeff and all,
       My understanding is that the naming of all meteorites is at
the sole discretion of the Nomenclature committee of the
Meteoritical Society. The original finder is irrelevant. I believe
anyone is free to suggest a name, but my experience is that such
suggestions carry little, if any, weight.
       However, the list is fortunate in having a former member
Of the Nomenclature Committee, Jeff Grossman as a member
Of the list. He would most certainly know better than any of
Us the specifics involved in naming a new fall.
       Michael


On 5/8/10 4:46 AM, "Jeff Kuyken" <i...@meteorites.com.au> wrote:

Exactly. I think past falls have shown us that there is no point trying to push one name over another. Amgala... ooops I mean Oum Dreyga is a perfect example of that and dare I mention West... ooops... sorry... Ash Creek! ;-)

Anyhow, I thought it was generally the first person submitting the
classification/meteorite who got the rights (within reason).

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "al mitt" <alm...@kconline.com>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?


Greetings,

It will be called what the Nomenclature Committee decides to name it as
naming has always been done in the past. Dr. Jeff Grossman made mention
the name Livingston would probably not be used due to conflict with other
named specimens.

Best!

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Alan"
To: Meteorite-List
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WI Meteorite Name?


Hello Listers,

I think the name of the meteorite should be Livingston because wasnt that
the first place a meteorite was found and the media has been talking
about that town. Plus it seems like that was ground zero the first couple
of days when everyone rushed into WI.

Shawn Alan

Jeff Grossman wrote on April 17th:

I see everybody starting to call this fall "Livingston"... but this is
not likely to be accepted as the name since there are already meteorites
named Livingston (Montana) and Livingston (Tennessee).

Jeff


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Fri May 7 18:06:46 EDT 2010

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You all know that we gotta call it the Livingston strewn field. In fact we should start a new nameing process where all meteorites that are from a strewn field should have a large S after it. Regardless of the name of
the rock.


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