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

[Richard Montgomery]

Lovina remains a high priority for me!

List, please correct me, since I'm no doubt way off base here, but wasn't 
the original mass's physical  appearance attributed in part to a saline 
submersion refractory?  It was my first red-flag.

Still, Lovina is THE most amazing structure, whether or not terrestrial.  (I 
have a prominent empty spot on my wrong-shelf dedicated to Lovina, along 
side a mostly siderite vs.olivine Shirkowski, and then a translucent olivine 
Shir-slice; and a Mendota-wrong.)

These curious query-wrongs are awesome!!!

-Richard Montgomery

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Count Deiro" <countdeiro at earthlink.net>
To: "Darryl Pitt" <darryl at dof3.com>; "Meteorite-list List" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: "Baiyu" <baiyu4u at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite


>I know how disappointed you must be, Darryl. You spent a great deal of 
>blood and treasure directing and paying for the the analysis of this still 
>extraordinary apecimen. The professionalism and honesty of your efforts to 
>find the truth of Lovinia is apparent to all. The piece sure did capture 
>the imagination. I was hoping for a different outcome, so I could have a 
>piece.
>
> Best personal regards,
>
> Guido
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
>>Sent: May 24, 2011 6:22 PM
>>To: Meteorite-list List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Cc: Baiyu <baiyu4u at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
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>>All best / Darryl
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