Name: Dominion Range 14125 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 14125 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 71.3 g
30% Brown fusion crust. There are several fractures cutting through the meteorite. The exposed surface is brown with red/orange rust. The interior is a black/brown matrix full of orange rust and metals.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
This section is dominated by fine grained, equigranular impact melt (dominantly olivine), with unmelted clastic material up to 2 mm. On one edge of the section, the impact melt has quenched to a glass adjacent to one of these unmelted clasts. Rounded to ovoid droplets exhibit intergrowths of metal and sulfide. In some locations, metal seems to be preferentially located at one edge of the inclusion, suggestive of gravitational orientation. Olivine compositions are Fa13-42 and pyroxenes from Fs12-25. This meteorite is an ordinary chondrite impact melt breccia, possibly an L chondrite.
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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