[meteorite-list] Meteorite - new issue - Lovina ungrouped iron

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:40:05 +0100
Message-ID: <20F0E822AB664F8AB6FBA792DA510A5F_at_thinkcentre>

Svend, list,

don't wanting to anticipate Darryl's reaction - only to shorten the latency
a bit:
http://www.macovich.com/Lovina.htm

Best regards,

Matthias B.


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Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:44 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite - new issue - Lovina ungrouped iron


> Today the current issue of Meteorite arrived. While I haven't found time
> yet to
> read through the articles, I had a post card fell from inbetween pages,
> showing
> a
> brilliant and most exciting photo, which I'd like to point your kind
> attention
> to.
>
> The photo shows the surf-sculpted mass of the Lovina ungrouped iron, a
> 1981 find
> from Bali Indonesia of a 8.2 kg meteoritic iron. Ever since I heard from
> its
> discovery and classification I wondered how it might look like.
> Particularly as
> I walked the very beach where it was found repeatedly in 2004 and 2008.
> Well, it
> is not exxagerated to say, that the specimen's appearance has nothing in
> common
> with iron meteorites as we know them.
>
> The anthrazite colored mass displays a beautiful and striking three
> dimensional
> crystallization pattern which reminds one on the stepped roof
> architectures of
> Balinese temples - or on colonies of polyhedral Pacific barnacles clinging
> to
> rocks in the surf. The iron is of such striking plasticity that one is
> tempted
> to
> doubt, that the structures present are indeed revealed by nature and not
> by
> a very gifted sculptor.
>
> Perhaps our fellow list member and author of this world class photo,
> Darryl
> Pitt, is so kind to provide a link. For those who might not receive
> Meteorite,
> or think, they "have seen it all" its really worth a look.
>
> Svend
>
> www.meteorite-recon.com
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