[meteorite-list] Lovina "debate?"

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:43:31 -0400
Message-ID: <03E13035-DC0F-44FF-ADA0-CB8F69640659_at_dof3.com>

very funny. ;-) all best / d,




On Jun 9, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Matthias B?rmann wrote:

> What a frustration, Darryl, it would be if cosmogenic nuclide
> testing would turn out that Lovina is only part of a common
> spaceship from Beteigeutze.
>
> My very best,
> Matthias
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Pitt" <darryl at dof3.com>
> To: "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> Cc: "Kevin Kichinka" <marsrox at gmail.com>; "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> >
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lovina "debate?"
>
>
>>
>>
>> In response to Mike's query, Lovina revisited:
>>
>> LOVINA
>> Iron (ataxite, ungrouped)
>> Found 1981
>> Bali, Indonesia
>>
>>
>> --Lovina is highly anomalous, which in-and-of-itself plants a seed
>> of doubt;
>> --Lovina was certified as a meteorite by the Nomenclature Committee;
>> --An abstract on Lovina appeared in Lunar and Planetary Science;
>> --John Wasson has stated "Metals made by man will differ from
>> meteorites in terms of several elements and element ratios," and
>> declared Lovina is most likely a meteorite as the elemental
>> signature of every single element as well as every ratio between
>> the elements fit perfectly with a meteorite's signature;
>> --Ted Bunch declared this is most probably a meteorite, "The odds
>> of a terrestrial rock having every element and every elemental
>> ratio match a meteorite's composition are akin to possessing a
>> winning Powerball ticket";
>> --Lovina is currently undergoing cosmogenic nuclide testing;
>> --If the radiation data comes back positive, Lovina is
>> incontrovertibly a meteorite;
>> --If the radiation data comes back negative, Lovina is probably a
>> meteorite but there will forever be a seed of doubt;
>>
>>
>> For further information, go to http://www.macovich.com/Lovina.htm
>>
>>
>> All best / Darryl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 8, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Michael Blood wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kevin, Darryl & all,
>>> Can anyone tell me why there is ANY debate over whether
>>> Or not Lovina is or is not a meteorite? It is listed in the
>>> Meteorite
>>> Bulitin as a meteorite, so, what is this debate based on and
>>> Who is arguing the issue?
>>> RSVP anyone who knows...
>>> Thanks, Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/8/10 10:58 AM, "Kevin Kichinka" <marsrox at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I notice that a slice of Darryl's lovely Lovina met was recently
>>>> offered at auction. Reading the prose associated with its
>>>> consignment,
>>>> I wonder if clarification is in order.
>>>>
>>>> "In addition, Lovina is also one of a handful of underwater
>>>> meteorite
>>>> finds, and is the only meteorite find recovered from a body of
>>>> water
>>>> where there was not an additional meteorite from the same event
>>>> first
>>>> recovered from the shoreline."
>>>>
>>>> I lived in Florida for many years and have an interest in the few
>>>> meteorites recovered there.
>>>>
>>>> According to the Cat of Mets 5th Edition - "Okechobee L4 (Palm
>>>> Beach
>>>> County, Florida) - Fragments weighing about 1kg were brought up
>>>> in a
>>>> net some 0.75 miles from the shore, G.P. Merrill (1916)."
>>>>
>>>> The body of water is Lake Okeechobee. There is no record of
>>>> specimens
>>>> ever having been recovered on shore.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Kichinka
>>>> MARSROX at gmail.com
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