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Dominion Range 18218
Basic information Name: Dominion Range 18218
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: DOM 18218
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 12.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L3.8
Recommended:  L3.8    [explanation]

This is 1 of 69 approved meteorites classified as L3.8.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 22 Sep 2022
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Writeup from AMN 45(2):






Data from:
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Date:2018
Latitude:-85.6524
Longitude:167.226
Mass (g):12.087
Pieces:1
Class:L3.8
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):23-28
Ferrosilite (mol%):20-21
Magnetic suscept.:4.11
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):12.087
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:EMPA; submitted by AMN
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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 45(2) (2022), JSC, Houston
Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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     Recommended::   (85° 39' 9"S, 167° 13' 34"E)

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     This is 1 of 44274 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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