[meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? / New Bulletin

Meteoryt.net marcin at meteoryt.net
Tue May 10 15:54:41 EDT 2005


> Amgala was the provisional working name for Oum Dreyga.  The meteorite
fell
> between Amgala and Oum Dreyga in the country of Western Sahara.  It was
> determined later on to have fallen closer to Oum Dreyga than Amgala thus
the
> new name.  The coordinates were provided by us from the beginning and do
> plot closer to Oum Dreyga.  If you dig through the archives you will see
we
> even provided a map. NAU was working on this material from the beginning
and
> would have also called it Oum Dreyga.   It doesn't matter either way
because
> it is now formerly classified.

OK.
Unfortunatelly we have here two worlds.
World of science and comercial world. Unfortunatelly science world make
rules here :)

So what will happend if strewfield will be in half way beetween 2 towns ? It
will have name of town closer to bigger specimens or not ? :)) Or we will be
have X-Y like Gao-Guenie ? :))

Its for me little funny now. One meteorite will be have now 2 names.
Official and unofficial.
I only hope that noone will return Amgala purchased from me becouse its not
Oum Dreyga :))

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