[meteorite-list] I (Heart) Lovina

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:47:45 -0400
Message-ID: <4C0F9B81.3030005_at_usgs.gov>

Bjurb?le is another.

jeff

On 6/9/2010 2:11 AM, Jason Utas wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Darryl Pitt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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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