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

[Jeff Grossman]

Meteorites can be discredited.  We shall have to see about this one.

Jeff

On 5/24/2011 9:59 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> 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:
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> 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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