Name: LaPaz Icefield 02237 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LAP 02237 Observed fall: No Year found: 2002 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 24.4 g
Macroscopic Description: Cecilia Satterwhite
Exterior is dull brown/black. The interior is extremely weathered to a rusty brown color.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach
The section consists of lenticular clasts of relatively unshocked chondritic material set in a shock-blackened matrix with elongated metal and sulfides and fragments of mineral grains and chondrules reaching 1 mm. The mineral compositions are homogenous; olivine is Fa19 and orthopyroxene is Fs16-18. The meteorite is a shock-blackened H5 chondrite with extensive shock veining. The section examined may not be a good representative of the mass as whole. It may be paired with LAP 02231.