[meteorite-list] Silly-sounding Meteorite Names

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Anne and list,
Of course I Needmore, but I want a New Deal on the price.
Pete


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Silly-sounding Meteorite Names
> From: Impactika at aol.com
> Date: Fri, September 02, 2011 2:50 am
> To: mexicodoug at aim.com, parkforestmet at hotmail.com, mikestang at gmail.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> 
> 
> But if you want a more appropriate name, you have Needmore, a chondrite, 
> found in Texas in 1976. 
> But, sorry, only one mass of less that 2 kilos.
> And No, I don't have any.
>  
> Anne M. Black
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>  
>  
> In a message dated 9/2/2011 12:25:21 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
> mexicodoug at aim.com writes:
> Bill wrote:
> 
> "Is there any meteorite name that can really be tagged as being 
> frivolous?"
> 
> I vote for the 1944 fall, "Mike", as the silliest meteorite name of all 
> time.
> 
> (just so the Mike Web Ring doesn't go after me, let me specify, it is 
> for Mike G since he started the thread!)
> 
> Seriously, there is one frivolous name IMO,
> 
> "Santiago Papasquiero"
> 
> One letter was in error somewhere in the naming process, probably as 
> submitted by Chuck Lewis to the meteoritical bulletin in Moscow.  He 
> was the Curator at the time of the ASU meteorite collection.  It almost 
> seems it was done on purpose...
> 
> In the original language, a fusion of Spanish and Tepehuan (Nahuatl) 
> language, it meant,
> 
> "The Preists of the Temple of the Eagles"
> 
> Talk about meteoritical butchery ;-)
> 
> It now means when translated,
> 
> "James I want potatoes."
> 
> Kindest wishes
> Doug
> 
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