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" <[email protected]>
To: "Darryl Pitt" <[email protected]>; "Meteorite-list List"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Baiyu" <[email protected]>
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
-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Pitt <[email protected]>
Sent: May 24, 2011 6:22 PM
To: Meteorite-list List <[email protected]>
Cc: Baiyu <[email protected]>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Lovina: most likely not a meteorite
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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