[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

[Darren Garrison]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:18:18 -0700, "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net> wrote:

>Dear Listees:
>
>Greetings all. I was interviewed by a reporter today for a follow-up on 
>the Brenham story, and he asked me a good question, which was along the 
>lines of: "What is the total known number of different meteorites, 
>including all Antarctic Finds and all classified NWAs?"
>

The problem that I see with figuring out that number is the loss of pairing info from Antarctica and
NWA.  Find a hundred meteorites in Antarctica, each gets its own number.  Find a hundred in the
Sikhote-Alin strewnfeild, for example, and they are all counted as the same meteorite.  So unless
each individual piece from each known strewnfeild is counted as a seperate meteorite, compairing
numbers from known falls to Antarctica and many NWAs is comparing apples and disarticulated
pomegranate pips.