[meteorite-list] I (Heart) Lovina

From: Kevin Kichinka <marsrox_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:58:19 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTik5_CG4IKJTMVPQC-YcrCkZDgTm9-jPZbR_Px_T_at_mail.gmail.com>

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
Received on Tue 08 Jun 2010 01:58:19 PM PDT