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Patuxent Range 10308
Basic information Name: Patuxent Range 10308
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PAT 10308
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 1.1 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 36(1)  (2013)  L5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 9037 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [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 PAT 10308
Newsletter 36,1
Location Patuxent Range
Field Number 22413
Dimensions 1.0 x 0.8 x 0.4
Weight 1.15
Original Classification L5 Chondrite
Mineral Composition (%Fa &  %Fs)
Fayalite (mol%): 24-27; Ferrosilite (mol%): 20
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite
The exterior has brown/black fusion crust with oxidation haloes. The interior is dark gray to black matrix with some lighter gray areas with rusty oxidation and a large piece of metal.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, and Linda Welzenbach
This meteorite is an L5 chondrite, but most of the section (~60%) is a large piece of Fe-Ni metal. Olivine compositions are Fa24-27and pyroxenes are Fs20Wo1.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample PAT 10308
Thin Section Photo of Sample PAT 10308 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Lab Group Photo of Sample PAT 10308 Displaying North Orientation  Thin Section Photo of Sample PAT 10308 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Data from:
  MB102
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Date:2010
Mass (g):1.1
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):24-27
Ferrosilite (mol%):20
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):1.1
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.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 45260 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)

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