[meteorite-list] Named masses

Jeff Grossman jngrossman at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 17:12:21 EDT 2011


All,

I'm compiling a list of all meteorites that have named masses.  The two 
well-known examples are Cape York and Campo del Cielo, which each have 
many large pieces that are known by informal names, e.g., Ahnighito (CY) 
and El Patio (CdC).

How many others can people come up with?  This is a crowdsourcing 
exercise for the MetBull database, where I'd like to keep track of such 
names.  I already have a long list of synonyms, but most of these are 
not the names of masses; they are alternate names and spellings for the 
meteorite itself  (if you'd like to scan them to see if you can spot any 
mass names, here is the long list: 
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullSynonyms.php).

What I need are:

Meteorite name; mass name; weight; source of information; optional 
descriptive text

Thanks to all who can help!

Jeff

p.s. I think I have most of the CdC and CY names already compiled.




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