<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">If I remember correctly (don’t have my book on me), you assigned numbers to “Sputnik” and “Tilt’s Baby,” despite them being fairly clear expressions of a previous geyser’s energy. I would agree that holding off on assigning official designations is important, but can we perhaps discuss a common usage name since it is a feature that is getting attention from gazers? Always writing out the phrase “new thing near Plume” seems unnecessary.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:00 PM, <a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com" class="">TSBryan@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">I decide to assign a number on something when it both shows signs of
"permanency" and/or gets a lot of attention in what might turn out to be a short
life. In this case, this geyser has been observed for many years and, although
I did not previously give it a number or name, I did mention it in my book
(current edition, page 55 where I note [as I have done online] that it was
incorrectly identified as Borah Peak Geyser in the early 2000s. It is because of
the attention it is generating plus the fact that it is, perhaps, getting larger
that I feel it deserves a number along with what appears to be an acceptable
name. So yes: UNNG-GHG-14 ("Fandango Geyser").</div>
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<div class="">Will I assign a number to the "thing" near Plume. No, because in my opinion
it is simply one more appearance of the feature(s) that in the past included the
small geyser known as "Ballcap." </div>
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<div class="">T. Scott Bryan</div></font></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Geysers mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu" class="">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br class="">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>