~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~A 160-pound meteorite Iron Meteorite sold to Marlin after a couple in the Wolsey, SD area found it on their property nine years previous.
The 4.7kg Lovina Iron Meteorite is truly one of a kind.
The following is an excerpt from http://www.macovich.com/Lovina.htm...
'Lovina is unbelievable. You can take whatever you thought you knew about meteorites - and it just doesn't matter anymore." Robbert Hagg
An ataxite, Lovina is one of only a handful of underwater finds and the only find recovered from a body of water where there was not an additional meteorite from the same event first recovered from the shoreline. The extraordinary ziggurat (pyramidal) structures are believed to be rich in tetrataenite. With its 34.5% nickel content, Lovina has the 4th largest nickel concentration of any meteorite; as a result, it was selectively resistant to the oxidizing effect of the tropical waters in which it was immersed for centuries. The internal structure of Lovina is only somewhat less anomalous than its matchless pyramids. An abundance of globular troilite nodules organized in a novel latticework comingle with similarly organized vugs a consequence of troilite oxidation.
The Tishomingo is categorized as Iron Ungrouped that is rich in Nickle. Four masses, totaling about 250 Kg were found around the area of Johnson County, Oklahoma, USA, in 1965.
The Tres Castillos Iron Meteorite is a single mass of 150 kg that was found on the ranch Tres Castillos on March of 1992 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
The Bear Creek Iron IIIAB (227 kg) was found in 1866 in Colorado in the United States.
Laguna Manantiales Iron, Octahedrite Meteorite was found in 1945 at Laguna Manantiales, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
Kossuth
The Kossuth Iron, fine octahedrite (IVA) (5.9 kg) was found 1975 in Auglaize County, Ohio, USA by a farmer in a field.
Found September of 1977 the Jaralito Iron, Octahedrite consists of a single mass of 11.138kg that was found in a field in Jaralito, Durango, Mexico.
This Pallasite Meteorite was first found near the town of Springwater (about 100 miles from Saskatoon) in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1931 and consisted of three masses of 85 pounds, 41 pounds, and 23 pounds.
A 12.4 kg meteorite, classified as an H6 chondrite, that fell in Peekskill, New York, on Oct. 9, 1992, penetrating the trunk of a 1980 Chevy Malibu that was sitting in its driveway.
The Axtell Carbonaceous Chondrite weighing 6.2kg was found (1943) in a field in McLennon County, Texas, USA while plowing.
The NWA 5400 is a brachinite-like achondrite meteorite that is remarkable for having an oxygen isotopic composition remarkably similar to that of the Earth and Moon. Because of this it has become the focus of research from several different groups.
The DHOFAR 700 is classified as Stone, Achondrite, Diogenite. Twelve dark-grey stones totaling 2770g were found in the Dhofar region of Oman on and around November 15, 2002.
