Name: Dominion Range 18629 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 18629 Observed fall: No Year found: 2018 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 17.6 g
Black fusion crust that is rough in some areas and shiny in others covers 90% of the exterior. There is one shiny, smooth brown spot that is about 3 mm in size. Exposed interior is light gray matrix with inclusions that range in color from white, to dark gray to black. Fresh interior is a light gray matrix with dark gray and white inclusions and a few very small spots of orange rust, a couple of light grayish-brown inclusions and some dark gray-black reflective mineral grains.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
This section consists of a medium grained, ophitic basaltic texture of pyroxene and plagioclase cross cut by shock veins. Many pyroxene grains show mosaicism, particularly in association with shock veins. Pyroxenes are Fs40-60Wo5-30 and feldspars are An66-90Or0.3-4. The meteorite is a 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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