[meteorite-list] Meteorite names that are names
Jeff Grossman
jgrossman at usgs.gov
Sat Jul 25 21:29:58 EDT 2009
I like this theme...
Can you name a famous American political figure whose first and last
name are each also H chondrite names?
Jeff
Darren Garrison wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:00:33 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>> I think Kevin Kichinka compiled such a list that he distributed with
>> his Meteorite Market report.
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>
> It is probably a pretty big percentage of meteorites, given names from all
> cultures, not just "American names" (whatever that is.) A big percentage of
> place names, I would think are named after someone-- and lots of people's names
> are then derived from place names. Somewhere in Australia, there might be some
> poor kid named Millbillillie Mundrabilla.
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