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

[Jeff Grossman]

By the way... the new database will show you all known synonyms for a 
name.  Look something up, then click on the meteorite in question.  You'll 
see the whole list.  Canyon Diablo has 35 of them, which you can see 
directly with this link: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=5257

(None of them is "Meteor Crater"!)

jeff

At 06:53 AM 5/11/2005, Roman Jirasek wrote:
>Many collectors have been asking me to make an "Amgala" label this year.
>My answer has always been, "I won't until the info is official".
>
>But even now, I will wait for the final bulletin publication before I
>proceed.
>Maybe then the TKW will have been updated.
>
>Roman Jirasek
>www.meteoritelabels.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Grossman" <jgrossman at usgs.gov>
>To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is Amgala Official? / New Bulletin
>
>
> > This happens all the time with meteorites that get on the market before
> > they come to the NomCom.  It's just a fact of life.  If a meteorite is
> > found halfway between towns, then usually the person who submits it to us
> > chooses.  Hyphenated names are only used in special circumstances (there
> > will be one announced this week where pieces fell on both sides of an
> > international border).  We give a lot of deference in choosing names to
>the
> > person or team that first classifies it as long as the name is reasonable
> > and appropriate.
> >
> > There are thousands of synonyms for meteorite out there.  Amgala will be
> > another.  It won't be used in the scientific literature, but it will get
>in
> > all the databases.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > At 03:54 PM 5/10/2005, Meteoryt.net wrote:
> >
> > > > 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 :))
> > >
> > >-----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]-----
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