Name: Dominion Range 08011 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 08011 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 3.4 g
Shiny black fusion crust covers 60% of the exterior surface. The remaining 40% is a light to medium gray, fine grained matrix. The interior is a fine grained, light gray matrix.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
This meteorite is dominated by fine-grained (~200 micron average grain size) basaltic material which occurs as both the host and clasts. Mineral compositions are homogeneous with orthopyroxene (Fs63Wo2), with lamellae of augite (Fs28Wo43), and plagioclase (An85Or1). The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~30. The meteorite is a monomict, brecciated eucrite.
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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