[meteorite-list] What's in a name? Name your meteorite for fame?

Jeff Grossman jgrossman at usgs.gov
Mon Feb 21 20:09:39 EST 2005


Names I'd like to see for meteorites:

A-lien (Taiwan)
Avarice (after Avarice Mount, Australia)
Expensive (after Expensive Tank, New Mexico)
Impossible (after Impossible Canyon, Calif.)
Pandora (New Zealand)
Priceless (after the Priceless Mine, Ariz.)
Stolen (Norway)
Unique (Cuba)
Unknown (Zimbabwe)
Useless (after Useless Inlet, Australia)

and of course, for a stone,

Rosetta (UK)

Dr. Jeffrey N. Grossman       phone: (703) 648-6184
US Geological Survey          fax:   (703) 648-6383
954 National Center
Reston, VA 20192, USA





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