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LaPaz Icefield 03605
Basic information Name: LaPaz Icefield 03605
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAP 03605
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 583 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 27(3)  (2004)  Iron-sulfide-rich
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  Iron-ung
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Iron-ung
Recommended:  Iron    [explanation]

This is 1 of 102 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as Iron.   [show all]
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Writeup from AMN 27(3):
Sample No.: LAP 03593; LAP 03605; LAP 03631
Location: LaPaz Icefield
Field No.: 16731; 16721; 16715
Dimensions (cm):   8.0x6.0x5.5
9.5x5.5x4.5
7.5x3.5x3.5
Weight (g): 657.5; 582.8; 164.9
Meteorite Type: Iron (Sulfide-Rich)
   
LAP03593 LAP03593
LAP03605 and LAP03631  

Macroscopic Description: Tim McCoy, Lisa Collins
These meteorites exhibit a common external appearance. They have a knobby surface with numerous rounded protrusions up to 1 cm across intermixed with indentations containing a macroscopically jointed mineral.

Microscopic Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach
These meteorites were examined from a cut surface of LAP 03593, which displays a sub equal mixture of metal and sulfide with trace amounts of schreibersite and silicates or graphite. The troilite occurs as irregular blobs up to 3 cm in length each of which is composed of multiple troilite crystals 3-5 mm across and exhibit prominent parallel jointing. The metal contains swathing kamacite rims typically 1 mm thick and short irregular bars of kamacite approximately < 0.5 mm. A heat altered α2 structure extends up to 5 mm from the exterior weathered surface, and a highly altered fusion crust may be preserved in some places. The meteorites are similar to the IAB iron Pitts and the ungrouped iron Soroti, but exhibit coarser kamacite band widths than either, and lack the abundant silicates seen in Pitts.

Data from:
  MB89
  Table A1
  Line 238:
Origin or pseudonym:Terrapin Landing Royale
Mass (g):582.8
Class:Iron-ung
Weathering grade:B
Comments:03593 pairing group
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 27(3) (2004), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Antarctica
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     Recommended::   (86° 22'S, 70° 0'W)

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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