[meteorite-list] I (Heart) Lovina

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 14:20:58 -0400
Message-ID: <842A0659-43DD-4718-8741-70F102DD6F59_at_dof3.com>

Thanks Kevin,

You are too gracious; a clarification is not in order---an error needs
to be corrected!!


All best / Darryl



On Jun 8, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Kevin Kichinka 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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