The first receives its name from the meteorite itself, dubbed the "El Ali" meteorite because it was found lying on the ground of a valley used as a pasture for

The first receives its name from the meteorite itself, dubbed the "El Ali" meteorite because it was found lying on the ground of a valley used as a pasture for camels near the town of El Ali, in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. Slightly acceptable, I suppose. Herd named the second mineral after Lindy Elkins-Tanton, vice president of the ASU Interplanetary Initiative, professor at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration. Bah. It should maybe then be called something like ASUIIte or ASUSESEite. But much better in both cases would be a name that hinted at it's constituents and structure. Let's at least stop naming scientific/mathematical objects after people.