[meteorite-list] Warning to armchair fireball chasers

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:27:31 EDT, you wrote:

>He asked me in an email, if maybe the meteorite might be 
>able to be named after  him if it was found.  Now, I am not sure if such a 
>"bribe" was actually  offered to him, or if his ego was maybe puffed up a 
>bit by being made to think  that his contribution to some of us really made 
>him important enough to warrant  the rock being named after him? 

Probably simple ignorance of how meteorites are named.  You discover a comet, it
is named after you.  You discover an asteroid or plutazoid, you get to name it
(within guidelines).