[meteorite-list] I (Heart) Lovina

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:11:00 -0700
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Hello All,
One shouldn't forget Eltanin, Clarion, and Clipperton, three
meteorites recovered by sampling the ocean floor; it's hard to call
anything more of a water-find than that! An oceanic *fall* would be
Tahara, of which the only fragments recovered were found on the deck
of a ship (near the two dents that the stones made when they hit it).
No fragments of it hit land, so far as we know. The boat was docked,
but it was still in the water, meaning that it was a fall that was
recovered without ever touching land!
Cool stuff...and a shame we have so few water recoveries, seeing as
~3/4 of all meteorites that fall wind up in the drink.
Regards,
Jason

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Kevin,
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> You are too gracious; a clarification is not in order---an error needs to be
> corrected!!
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> All best / Darryl
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> On Jun 8, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Kevin Kichinka wrote:
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>> 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."
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>> 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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> On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Darryl Pitt wrote:
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>>
>> 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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>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
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