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11th Jan 2011 07:26 UTCLuca Baralis Expert

Please, any link to an official and complete classification table (or similar) for meteorites?

Per favore qualcuno può segnalarmi una classificazione ufficiale e completa per le meteoriti?

Thanks,

Luca

12th Jan 2011 09:54 UTCMarco E. Ciriotti Manager

Luca, you can find a classification also on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_classification

or here: http://www.astrodigital.org/astronomy/metcat.html

Ciao.

12th Jan 2011 22:03 UTCLuca Baralis Expert

Hi, Marco

thanks for the links. Well I read the wikipedia one yet (but on wikipedia.it) and others, too. However the problem is that there are (not so large, really) a number of classification list, generally slightly different one to others.

And most of them (also the two linked) seems not complete: I know some groups can be further divided in subgroups.

I really don't know if all these subgroup are largely accepted, or if there is an official classification scheme granted by a "meteoritic istitution" (something like IMA for minerals?)

12th Jan 2011 22:17 UTCLuca Baralis Expert

More:

the classification list/tree on wikipedia.en isn't right the same of that on wikipedia.it...

19th Jan 2011 13:04 UTCJim Ferraiolo

You might also try "Systematics and Evalution of Meteorite Classification", by Weisberg, McCoy and Krot (2007), a chapter from Meteorites and the Early Solar System II.

The PDF in available online.

19th Jan 2011 14:18 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

The PDF link: http://haroldconnolly.com/EES%20716%20Fall%2009%20Reading/Lecture%201/Background%20reading/Weisberg_etal_MESSII.pdf

19th Jan 2011 14:52 UTCjacques jedwab

There is nothing like "...an official and complete classification table (or similar) for meteorites". Scientific research never stops, and hates "official and complete" classifications. After all, it's the same as in any intellectual activity. Sorry for hurting you, if you thought otherwise!...Cheer up! J.J.

19th Jan 2011 16:23 UTCLuca Baralis Expert

Thanks to Jim & Uwe for the link: it seem interesting. I'll read it next weekend.

19th Jan 2011 16:33 UTCLuca Baralis Expert

jacques jedwab Scritto:

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> There is nothing like "...an official and complete classification table (or similar) for meteorites".

> Scientific research never stops, and hates "official and complete" classifications. After all, it's the same as in any intellectual

> activity. Sorry for hurting you, if you thought otherwise!...Cheer up! J.J.

Hurting ? Why? I agree with you: there in no definitive knowledge, so... however "official and complete" should be read as "up-to-date" and "endorsed by ...", well by some authority in meteorites.

To say, for minerals there is IMA, and IMA support teh Strunz & Nickel minerals classification, isn't it?

24th Jan 2011 13:55 UTCThomas Witzke Manager

Hello Luca,

a classification scheme with more detailed listing of subgroups you found at my homepage:
Meteorite classification

You will found also in this table slight differences to other schemes.

Thomas

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