[meteorite-list] Lovina

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:09:19 +0000
Message-ID: <SNT120-W466E98E1D2109B23029FE9CA430_at_phx.gbl>

RE: Lovina's unusual appearance.? I had understood that it was due to the etching action of sea water on the crystalline structure of the iron, rather like 3-D Wiedmanstatten patterns.? What we are seeing is individual iron-nickel crystals that have been partly freed from the surrounding metal.

Best!
Tracy Latimer

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> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:13:06 -0800
> From: epgrondine at yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lovina
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> Congratulations Darryl -
>
> I wonder what formation process can account for the unusual appearance?
>
> Is it compositionally in accord with the meteoritic iron used in keris?
>
> good hunting,
> E.P.
>
>
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