[meteorite-list] NAwhat'sME (was...Are these meteorites???)

[MexicoDoug]

"http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Al_Haggounia.html"

Wow, what a great and insightful page to these stones.  Maske one want 
to get on a plane and go digging themselves.  Does the list have an 
opionion of this already or is it one of those things that fell between 
the sofa cushions and never got cleaned up?

What is the status of the proposed reclassification in the Bulletin as 
an EL3?  If it hasn't been done yet can anyone post an opposing view to 
keep the aubrite or other classifications alive?

Maybe it hasn't been done because this relict meteorite is being called 
a "fossil"?  I've heard of fossil living people but fossil meteorites - 
please let's not go there!  Seems like there is more than one change 
being proposed on this page.  Best IMO - one thing at a time, leave 
that battle for another time.

IMO:

The use of the word 'fossil' for dug up minerals according to this 
dictionary is obsolete:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fossil

...but beyond that for any it is extremely confusing to the commercial 
side of this especially to innocent buyers and hopefully the IMCA and 
other alike groups can regulate this if it sounds reasonable; since it 
is generally used to describe for living organisms or structures left 
by them, and therefore has associated with it an air of ancient life to 
the new collector, and there is no need to evoke this term any more 
than 'aubrite' if in fact that doesn't fit.  As for 'paleo', it sounds 
like a $2 word for $0.06 per gram meteorite as well.

Relict is a perfect term and even has precedence as it has been used 
throughout the Chicxulub studies to describe the tektites which in a 
similar fasion have been incorporated into sediment.

So after reading the excellent and painstaking work by Drs. Ted Bunch 
and A. Irving, one has to wonder where Conan the Barbarian is just to 
come in and say:

They are relicts and they are EL3's, further use of any other mentioned 
terms is immediately hereby suspended until noticed by the axe-wielding 
squad ;-), or an opposing view makes its stand in a peer-reviewed 
article.

Kindest wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 10:19 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] Are these meteorites???




More than 20 pairings?:


The Al Haggounia "Fossil or Paleo" Meteorite Problem:

http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Al_Haggounia.html



Phil Whitmer
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