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Re: Great Sand Sea 012



Sharkkb8@aol.com schrieb:

> Anybody know details of GSS 012 (classification, etc.) which
> would be yet another Sahara find, either 1998 or early this year?

Jeff answered:

> The Nomenclature Committee has not approved any
> meteorite with this name, nor has any been submitted to us.

Starbits also wrote:

> Is it just Great Sand Seas 012 that hasn't been approved or have
> no meteorites been approved with a GSS name? I picked up a nice 6
> gram piece of howardite from the Carion's in Feb. They said the
> name was GSS 010.


Hello All!

Here is part of my database entries for Great Sand Sea specimens:

Name			Class	Locality

Great Sand Sea 001	L6	Western Desert
Great Sand Sea 002	L6	Western Desert
Great Sand Sea 003	Iron	Western Desert
Great Sand Sea 004	LL6	Western Desert
Great Sand Sea 005	L6	Al Wadi al Jadid
Great Sand Sea 006	L6	Al Wadi al Jadid
Great Sand Sea 007	H6	Al Wadi al Jadid
Great Sand Sea 008	LL3-6	Al Wadi al Jadid
Great Sand Sea 009	H5	Al Wadi al Jadid
							

Name				Latitude	Longitude

Great Sand Sea 001	26° 12' N		025° 40' E
Great Sand Sea 002	25° 30' N		025° 25' E
Great Sand Sea 003	26° 03' N		025° 40' E
Great Sand Sea 004	25° 35' 35" N	025° 31' 40" E
Great Sand Sea 005	25° 48' 58" N	025° 54' 51" E
Great Sand Sea 006	26° 45' 56" N	026° 19' 25" E
Great Sand Sea 007	26° 54' 37" N	026° 09' 06" E
Great Sand Sea 008	26° 35' 40" N	025° 37' 20" E
Great Sand Sea 009	27° 01' 50" N	026° 40' 28" E


Name				Year	Total in grams
Great Sand Sea 001	Find	1991	130
Great Sand Sea 002	Find	1991	135
Great Sand Sea 003	Find	1991	110
Great Sand Sea 004	Find	1994	580
Great Sand Sea 005	Find	1995	80
Great Sand Sea 006	Find	1995	45
Great Sand Sea 007	Find	1996	1450
Great Sand Sea 008	Find	1996	450
Great Sand Sea 009	Find	1996	414


Best regards,

Bernd

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