[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Major NWA Update, 75 new approvals, many achondrites

[Jeff Grossman]

Actually, Taoudenni was approved in 2010, and the provisional name NWA 
5178 was assigned in 2008. NomCom was not aware that the provisional 
name and Taoudenni referred to the same meteorite until it was reported 
to us this week.

Jeff

On 9/7/2013 4:38 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote:
> Hi Bulletin Watchers,
>
> There are many new approvals from the NWA dense collection area.
> There are many types, including achondrites.
>
> There is an interesting update - a provisional NWA has been
> "discredited" and removed, to be replaced with a name - Taoudenni.
>
> Taoudenni - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=51580
>
> Link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=%2A&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=2&pnt=Normal%20table&dr=&page=1
>
> Best regards and happy huntings,
>
> MikeG
>