Name: Sandford Cliffs 03489 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: SAN 03489 Observed fall: No Year found: 2003 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 29.2 g
Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
100% of the exterior has rough, black fusion crust with small glassy patches. The interior gray matrix has gray and white inclusions with thin hairline fractures.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
Cross-Polarized Light
Plane-Polarized Light
This section includes coarse- to fine-grained basaltic clasts up to 2 mm in a comminuted matrix of plagioclase and pyroxene. Pyroxene is dominantly pigeonite to subcalcic augite (Fs48-59Wo4-16) and plagioclase is An82-95. The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~30. The meteorite is a brecciated eucrite.