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

[JoshuaTreeMuseum]

Man, I knew that thing was too weird to be a meteorite. I wonder if the the 
MetBull will take it off their list or will they leave it, like they're 
doing with the Al Haggounia 001 aubrite kerfuffel.

Phil Whitmer

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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