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

[Michael Gilmer]

If Lovina is not a meteorite, then I would suggest that it remain in
the Bulletin with a write-up, but should be labeled a
"pseudo-meteorite" like Shirokovsky.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 5/24/11, Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ___________________________
>>
>> 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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