[meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:03:07 -0700
Message-ID: <68EA1F9257CE4B7DA0F2A8BCD9D61650_at_bosoheadPC>

Lovina remains a high priority for me!

List, please correct me, since I'm no doubt way off base here, but wasn't
the original mass's physical appearance attributed in part to a saline
submersion refractory? It was my first red-flag.

Still, Lovina is THE most amazing structure, whether or not terrestrial. (I
have a prominent empty spot on my wrong-shelf dedicated to Lovina, along
side a mostly siderite vs.olivine Shirkowski, and then a translucent olivine
Shir-slice; and a Mendota-wrong.)

These curious query-wrongs are awesome!!!

-Richard Montgomery

----- Original Message -----
From: "Count Deiro" <countdeiro at earthlink.net>
To: "Darryl Pitt" <darryl at dof3.com>; "Meteorite-list List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: "Baiyu" <baiyu4u at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite


>I know how disappointed you must be, Darryl. You spent a great deal of
>blood and treasure directing and paying for the the analysis of this still
>extraordinary apecimen. The professionalism and honesty of your efforts to
>find the truth of Lovinia is apparent to all. The piece sure did capture
>the imagination. I was hoping for a different outcome, so I could have a
>piece.
>
> Best personal regards,
>
> Guido
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
>>Sent: May 24, 2011 6:22 PM
>>To: Meteorite-list List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Cc: Baiyu <baiyu4u at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite
>>
>>
>>
>>Greetings:
>>
>>I just received a preliminary abstract on Lovina from Kuni Nishiizumi of
>>UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. Kuni, the abstract's lead
>>author, concluded it is unlikely Lovina is a meteorite. The markers
>>analyzed were beryllium and chlorine concentrations and the paucity of
>>cosmogenic radionuclides (only Gibeon and Nantan show less). One more
>>round of tests will occur and further conclusions will be drawn from the
>>same. The abstract entitled "Lovina: is this a Meteorite?" will appear in
>>the MAPS volume associated with the 74th Annual Meteoritical Society
>>Meeting this coming August.
>>
>>It has been suggested by some diehards that the bubbling evident in the
>>Lovina mass could have been the result of smelting, and that the lack of
>>cosmogenic radiation could be explained by Lovina having been near the
>>center of a much larger mass---as we know Lovina originated from at least
>>a somewhat larger mass for the ziggurat structures to have formed.
>>However, in the spirit of embracing the most likely of explanations, it
>>seems compelling to conclude that the most likely explanation for an
>>expanding host of anomalies is Lovina's terrestrial origin.
>>
>>Accordingly, I've decided to no longer offer Lovina as a meteorite and
>>have asked my webmaster to take down references to the same on
>>Macovich.com at her earliest possible convenience.
>>
>>
>>All best / Darryl
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