With world-wide meteoritic heavy-hitters chiming in on this, (and me a
meager newbe) I can't help but suggest that this will be re-visited many
times over-and over, very soon in fact. Four distinct Martian types might
be only the tip of what may emerge in our near future (certainly!) What
will this group be named when samples of many more Martian petrologic types
eventually be returned?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Verish" <bolidecha...@yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>; "Anne Black" <impact...@aol.com>
Cc: <a...@unm.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
--- On Fri, 1/25/13, Anne Black <impact...@aol.com> wrote:
Lets make it simple.
Now we can have:
Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia.
Simple as that.
Okay! We're settled, then: AMBB it will be!
(Sorry, Anne, I couldn't resist;-)
But seriously, folks. Consider the following:
"martian meteorites" - Martian meteorites are martian rocks that were
ejected from Mars by impacts and later fell to the Earth as meteorites.
The well-known types are
S saharaites (basaltic clasts in a porphyritic groundmass)
shergottites (basaltic to lherzolitic igneous rocks),
N nakhlites (clinopyroxenites)
C chassignites (dunitic cumulate rocks)
A ALH 84001(orthopyroxenites)
Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Bob V.
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From: Anne Black <impact...@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
To: a...@unm.edu, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 11:33 AM
Please,
No, no more acronyms!
The world is being invaded by those meaningless,
un-translatable monstrosities.
Lets make it simple.
We have had for a long time such a thing as:
Achondrite Eucrite Polymict Breccia.
Now we can have:
Achondrite Martian Basaltic Breccia.
Simple as that.
Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
impact...@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Agee <a...@unm.edu>
To: meteoritelist meteoritelist <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 9:33 am
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
--
Carl B. Agee
Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MSC03 2050
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
Tel: (505) 750-7172
Fax: (505) 277-3577
Email: a...@unm.edu
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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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