[meteorite-list] Campos Sales

[Wilton Carvalho]

Hello José Campos, Doug and all list subscribers.

I would like to contribute to explain the name Campos Sales for the
meteorite which fell in Brazil in 1991.

Campos Sales is a small town in the Ceará State, in the Northeast of Brazil.
This town was named after the Brazilian third President Manoel Ferraz de
Campos Sales. The meteorite fall was near such a town, hence the meteorite
name submited to the Meteoritical Society.

I have been there in 1997.

Here is the official information from Brazilian Government for the  former
president Campos Sales.

http://www.arquivonacional.gov.br/memoria/crapp_site/presidente.asp?rqID=15

Wilton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jose Campos" <josecamposcomet at netcabo.pt>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:18 PM
Subject: Fw: [meteorite-list] Campos Sales


> Hi Doug,
>
> Sim, si, yes, I am more inclined on that explanation that you found for
the
> "Campos Sales" name.
> Saudações de Portugal
> José Campos
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
> To: ""Jose Campos"" <josecamposcomet at netcabo.pt>; ""Meteorite List""
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Campos Sales
>
>
> > José Campos kindly responded:
> >
> >>I suspect that the word "Sales" might have
> >>something do to with a possible existence
> >>of a nearby Mission of Saint Francisco de
> >>Sales? (of the Order of the Salesians),
> >>hence "Campos Sales"?
> >
> > Olá e Olé José,
> >
> > Thanks for the kindest clarification on the word "Sales".  The potential
> > irony of the name still isn't lost but I appreciate your good
explanation
> > on the word "Sal" and "Sales".  Here's another take on Campos :) I think
I
> > can offer...when I realized you are José Campos!  How about the third
> > Brasilian president MANUEL FERRAZ DE CAMPOS SALES, who successfully
> > negotiated with France the border of Brasil near French Guiana, hence
> > including the region near the Campos Sales meteorite locality got the
town
> > named in his commemoration.  I got the following off a Brasilian history
> > site:
> >
> > "O terceiro presidente foi Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1898-1902),
> > considerado o saneador das finanças do país, abaladas desde o final do
> > Império, mas especialmente em virtude do "encilhamento", havido durante
o
> > Governo Provisório. Outra vitória do barão do Rio Branco: a questão do
> > Amapá, de limites com a Guiana Francesa."
> >
> > Thanks again José, and Saudades do Campos Sales! Y Saludos desde Mexico!
> > Doug
> >
> > Olá Doug and List,
> >
> > In connection with the Campos Sales meteorite, I noticed that on the
> > 25/Oct/2004 Doug wrote:
> >
> > "...Further, the rainy season  starts to peak during the quoted recovery
> > time in Campos Sales, and to boot, Campos Sales sounds like  it means
> > "Salt
> > Fields" in Portuguese."
> >
> > It may sound like it, and yes, Campos means "Fields"; however, the word
> > "Sales" does NOT exist in the Portuguese language. Although "Salt" in
> > Portuguese is written "Sal",  if it were to mean "Salt Fields" it should
> > have been "Campos Salgados" and not "Campos Sales".
> >
> > I suspect that the word "Sales" might have something do to with a
possible
> > existence of a nearby Mission of Saint Francisco de Sales? (of the Order
> > of
> > the Salesians), hence "Campos Sales"?
> >
> > Regards and
> > Saudações de Portugal (Doug, "Saudades" in Portuguese means "longing")
> >
> > José Campos
> > Portugal
> >
> >
> >
> >
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