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LaPaz Icefield 04592
Basic information Name: LaPaz Icefield 04592
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAP 04592
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 13.1 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 30(2)  (2007)  CR2
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 94  (2008)  CR2
Recommended:  CR2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 186 approved meteorites classified as CR2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), and CR chondrites
Comments: Approved 31 Aug 2007
Writeuphelp
Writeup from AMN 30(2):
Sample No.: LAP 04592
Location: LaPaz Ice Field
Field No.: 17458
Dimensions (cm):   2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5
Weight (g): 13.056
Meteorite Type:

CR2 Chondrite



Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
The exterior is covered completely with brown thick fusion crust and polygonal fractures. The interior is black with an oxidation rind and rusty haloes. Some dark chondrules are visible.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The section exhibits medium, well-defined, metal-rich chondrules and CAIs in a dark, altered matrix that is particularly abundant. The section shows a prominent flattening and alignment, probably from shock. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa1-3 and pyroxenes from Fs1-6Wo1. The meteorite is a CR2 chondrite.



Thin Section Images

Plane-Polarized
Light LAP 04592		 Cross Polarized Light
LAP 04592
LAP04592 - Plane-Polarized Light LAP04592 - Cross Polarized Light



Lab Images

LAP 04592

Data from:
  MB94
  Table 4
  Line 139:
Mass (g):13.056
Class:CR2
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):1-3
Ferrosilite (mol%):1-6
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 30(2) (2007), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 94, MAPS 43, 1551-1588 (2008)
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JSC A photo is in the write-up above
Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 43856 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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