[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

[Martin Horejsi]

Hello Geoff,

Good question. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, as of
November 19, 2006, there are 31227 valid meteorite names and 2419
provisional names.

http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php

As far as the quote, I am still working on that. Seems to me that I
read it even before RFS was published.

Cheers,

Martin Horejsi


On 12/6/05, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
> 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.
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