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Larkman Nunatak 06674
Basic information Name: Larkman Nunatak 06674
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAR 06674
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 31.2 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 32(2)  (2009)  LL3.8
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  Terr
Recommended:  LL3.8    [explanation]

This is 1 of 33 approved meteorites classified as LL3.8.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 4 Sep 2009
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Writeup from AMN 32(2):
Sample Number LAR 06674
Pairing LAR 06301; LAR 06674
Newsletter 32,2
Location Larkman Nunatak
Field Number 19567
Dimensions 4.0 x 2.5 x 2.0
Weight 31.24
Original Classification LL3.8 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride and Cecilia Satterwhite
The exteriors have brown/black fusion crust with oxidation haloes and chondrules/inclusions visible. Areas without fusion crust are a rusty orange brown. The interiors are rusty black with abundant white/gray/weathered inclusions/chondrules and metal.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The sections exhibit numerous large, well-defined chondrules (up to 1.5 mm) and occasional melt clasts in a matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Weak shock effects are present. Polysynthetically twinned pyroxene is abundant. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa11-33 and pyroxenes from Fs6-34. The meteorites are LL3 chondrites (estimated subtype 3.8).
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample LAR 06674
LAR 06674 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing North View  LAR 06674 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Plane-Polarized Light  LAR 06674 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Cross-Polarized Light 
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 2
  Line 172:
Mass (g):31.2
Class:Terr
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):14-33
Ferrosilite (mol%):14-28
Classifier:SI
Type spec location:JSC, SI
Main mass:JSC
Comments:Fracturing B
Institutions
   and collections		 JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013)
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 39173 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 5051 unapproved names)

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