Name: Dominion Range 08001 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 08001 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 1305 g
Shiny black fusion crust covers 80% of the exterior surface. The remaining 20% is a light gray medium to fine-grained matrix with medium gray mottling and trace rust spots. This sample has several elongate, oriented voids on the top-west face that range in diameter from 1 to 14 mm. The interior is a light gray medium to fine-grained matrix with medium gray mottling and trace rust spots.
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Description - Cari Corrigan
This meteorite is dominated by fine-grained (~200 micron average grain size) basaltic material which occurs as both the host and clasts within these meteorites. Occasional coarser-grained clasts, with grain sizes up to 1.5 mm, are observed. Mineral compositions are homogeneous with orthopyroxene (Fs61Wo2), with lamellae of augite (Fs25Wo45), and plagioclase (An86Or0.8). The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~34. The meteorite is a 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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