[meteorite-list] I (Heart) Lovina
Darryl Pitt
darryl at dof3.com
Tue Jun 8 17:19:40 EDT 2010
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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