Hi Carl,

It is lunch time for us Floridians so I am just taking a break and munching on some SNACS...

Seriously, What is the current count of NWA 7034 'official' pairings and how many stones constitute each of those? We have all heard of 'paired' stones making the current stone count at about a dozen or so "IF" they are indeed paired to NWA 7034. We have been hearing and seeing images of stones offered from Moroccan dealers as pairings.

If I read it all correctly, the original single 320g stone was the first "NWA 7034" one. Are the three stones pictured in all of the press releases part of one stone that adds up to 320 grams? If not, what are the weights of the additional two stones and/or do they each have their own NWA numbers? Also, I heard there is a 240 gram stone with the owner of the first 320g stone, has this been confirmed yet?

The only 'officially' paired stone that I am aware of is NWA 7533 weighing in at 84 grams.

If all of the stones that are 'guaranteed' paired to NWA 7034 by Moroccan dealers, the combined weight is exceeding 1000 grams which is pretty cool for such a unique meteorite!

Congrats again to all involved in bringing this new Martian meteorite to light!

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message----- From: Carl Agee
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:33 AM
To: meteoritelist meteoritelist
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

Jeff,

Now that you are at NASA you can appreciate the perverse things people
do with words just to come up with a cool acronym. Making the new
Martian meteorite acronym even half way cool requires some drastic
measures, like giving NWA 7034 Basaltic Breccia Black Beauty a new
name based on locality: I propose "saharaite". So we now have the
meteorites from Mars or "SCANS"

S: shergottite
C: chassignite
A: ALH 84001
N: nakhlite
S: saharaite

Enjoy!

Carl Agee


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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:43:04 -0500
From: Jeff Grossman <jngross...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Don't forget ALH 84001, the pyroxenite.

SNCPB?

If we use the N from NWA instead of B, and the A from ALH, how about CANNS?

Or maybe we should just do the sensible thing and call them Martian
meteorites?

Jeff

On 1/24/2013 4:42 PM, h...@meteorhall.com wrote:
Hi Paul,
I like the "SNCB". It sounds like a radio station's call letters...Stay
tuned for all of your Martian meteorite news from SNCB.
Regards, Fred H.

How shall we organize the new class of Martian?

Until now it has been SNC

How about B or B squared for BASALTIC BRECCIA ?

SNCB

What say you all?

-Paul Gessler
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