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Dominion Range 10534
Basic information Name: Dominion Range 10534
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: DOM 10534
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 13 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 36(1)  (2013)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 25 Feb 2013
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Writeup from AMN 102:
Sample Number DOM 10534
Newsletter 36,1
Location Dominion Range
Field Number 19180
Dimensions 2.0 x 2.0 x 1.5
Weight 12.98
Original Classification L6 Chondrite
Mineral Composition (%Fa &  %Fs)
Fayalite (mol%): 26; Ferrosilite (mol%): 21
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride
85% of the pitted exterior has brown/black fusion crust. The rusty interior has a crystalline texture and has abundant metal.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan and Tim McCoy
This meteorite is a shock-veined ordinary chondrite. Olivines in the section are of composition Fa26, pyroxenes are Fs21Wo2. The meteorite is an L chondrite of petrologic type 6.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample DOM 10534
Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample DOM 10534 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Lab Group Photo of Sample DOM 10534 Displaying North Orientation 
Data from:
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Date:2010
Mass (g):13
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):26
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):13
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Submitted by AMN
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 36(1) (2013), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 44547 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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