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Dominion Range 08006
Basic information Name: Dominion Range 08006
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: DOM 08006
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2008
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 667 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 32(2)  (2009)  CO3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  CO3
Recommended:  CO3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 654 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CO3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites
Comments: Approved 4 Sep 2009
Revised 24 Apr 2020: Corrected weathering grade
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Writeup from AMN 32(2):
Sample Number DOM 08006
Pairing DOM 08004; DOM 08006
Newsletter 32,2
Location Dominion Range
Field Number 18996
Dimensions 10.5 x 11.0 x 4.5
Weight 667.3
Original Classification CO3 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Roger Harrington and Kathleen McBride
Dull black fusion crust, 1-2mm in thickness, covers 85% of the exteriors. The fusion crust is cracked on all the faces but the interior is not. The remaining 15% is a dark brown, fine grained matrix (006 has a 1 mm blue crystal in a vug on the Top-North end). The overall exterior of 006 has a pronounced aerodynamic shape with flow lines on the Bottom side. The interiors are a dark brown to black fine grained matrix with some mm sized white chondrules.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The sections consist of abundant small (up to 1 mm) chondrules, chondrule fragments and mineral grains in a dark matrix. Metal and sulfide occur within and rimming the chondrules. Olivine ranges in composition from Fa0-51 and pyroxenes range from Fs1-15. The meteorites are CO3 chondrites.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample DOM 08006
DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Bottom View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Blue Vug Macro View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Blue Vug Micro View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Blue Vug Zoom View 
DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing East View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing North View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing South View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Top View 
DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing West View  DOM 08006 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Sample Splits  DOM 08006 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Plane-Polarized Light  DOM 08006 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Cross-Polarized Light 
DOM 08006 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 5x magnification in Plane-Polarized Light  DOM 08006 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 5x magnification in Cross-Polarized Light 
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 2
  Line 6:
Mass (g):667.3
Class:CO3
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%): 1.0-33
Ferrosilite (mol%): 0-3
Classifier:SI
Type spec location:JSC, SI
Main mass:JSC
Comments:Fracturing A
Institutions
   and collections		 JSC: Mailcode XI, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Jul 2022)
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 32(2) (2009), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 45260 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)

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