[meteorite-list] Meteorite - new issue - Lovina ungrouped iron

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Today the current issue of Meteorite arrived. While I haven't found time yet to
read through the articles, I had a post card fell from inbetween pages, showing
a
brilliant and most exciting photo, which I'd like to point your kind attention
to. 

The photo shows the surf-sculpted mass of the Lovina ungrouped iron, a 1981 find
from Bali Indonesia of a 8.2 kg meteoritic iron. Ever since I heard from its
discovery and classification I wondered how it might look like. Particularly as
I walked the very beach where it was found repeatedly in 2004 and 2008. Well, it
is not exxagerated to say, that the specimen's appearance has nothing in common
with iron meteorites as we know them. 

The anthrazite colored mass displays a beautiful and striking three dimensional
crystallization pattern which reminds one on the stepped roof architectures of
Balinese temples - or on colonies of polyhedral Pacific barnacles clinging to
rocks in the surf. The iron is of such striking plasticity that one is tempted
to
doubt, that the structures present are indeed revealed by nature and not by
a very gifted sculptor.      

Perhaps our fellow list member and author of this world class photo, Darryl
Pitt, is so kind to provide a link. For those who might not receive Meteorite,
or think, they "have seen it all" its really worth a look.

Svend

www.meteorite-recon.com