[meteorite-list] Total Number of Meteorites?

[Martin Horejsi]

Oops. I got ahead of myself. This is still 2005. Hopefully there will
be more named specimens by this time next year.

Cheers,

Martin



On 12/6/05, Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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