Name: Dominion Range 08008 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 08008 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 27.1 g
Dull black fusion crust covers 5% of the exterior surface. The remaining 95% is a heavily pitted, light gray medium to fine-grained matrix with rust brown mottling. The interior is a light gray, medium to fine-grained matrix with dark gray mottling.
Thin Section (,2) 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 2 mm, are observed. Mineral compositions are homogeneous with orthopyroxene (Fs60Wo2), with lamellae of augite (Fs26Wo43), and plagioclase (An92Or0.1). 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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