Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Queen Alexandra Range 93007

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Queen Alexandra Range 93007

Basic information

Name: Queen Alexandra Range 93007
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: QUE 93007
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1993
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 3.1 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 17(3)	(1994)	CK5
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 79	(1996)	CK5
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	CK5
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	CK5
Recommended:			CK5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 199 approved meteorites classified as CK5. [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated), CK chondrites, CK chondrites (type 4-6), and CV-CK clan chondrites

Comments:

Field number: 10425

Writeup

Writeup from AMN 17(3):

Sample No.: QUE93007
Location: Queen Alexandra Range
Dimensions (cm): 1.4 x 1.1 x 0.9
Weight (g): 3.1
Meteorite Type: CK5 chondrite

Macroscopic Description: Robbie Marlow
Dull black fusion crust covers 40% of the exterior of QUE93007. Traces of evaporite deposit are present. Several white, submillimeter-sized inclusions are visible in the dark gray, fine-grained matrix. This specimen is friable.

Thin Section (,3) Description: Brian Mason
The section shows sparse poorly-defined chondrules, up to 1.8 mm across, in a groundmass of fine-grained olivine with minor plagioclase and opaques (mainly magnetite, with some sulfide). Olivine has a uniform composition, Fa31; plagioclase composition is variable, An24-64; one grain of diopside, Wo42Fs17, was analyzed. The meteorite is a C5 of the Karoonda subtype.

Data from:
  MB79
  Table 2
  Line 573:

Origin or pseudonym:	Foggy Bottom Moraine
Mass (g):	3.1
Class:	CK5
Weathering grade:	A/Be
Fayalite (mol%):	31

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 17(3) (1994), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 79, MAPS 31, A161-A174 (1996)

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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(84°S, 168°E)
Recommended::	(84° 36' 18"S, 162° 8' 29"E)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 93.7 km apart

Statistics:
This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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