[meteorite-list] NWA 7034

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:53:50 -0800
Message-ID: <4B9D9FC53FF24AF5A93C3CAF9BFBA6E4_at_bosoheadPC>

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" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Anne Black" <impactika at aol.com>
Cc: <agee at unm.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034


--- On Fri, 1/25/13, Anne Black <impactika at 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 <impactika at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
> To: agee at unm.edu, meteorite-list at 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
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu>
> To: meteoritelist meteoritelist <meteorite-list at 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
>
>
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> Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
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>
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> -------------------------------------------------------
> Message: 19
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:43:04 -0500
> From: Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Message-ID: <5102A808.5040709 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> 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, hall at 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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