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Buckley Island 10933
Basic information Name: Buckley Island 10933
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: BUC 10933
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 486 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 36(1)  (2013)  CR2
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  CR2
Recommended:  CR2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 188 approved meteorites classified as CR2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), and CR chondrites
Comments: Approved 25 Feb 2013
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Writeup from AMN 102:
Sample Number BUC 10933
Newsletter 36,1
Location Buckley Island
Field Number 21432
Dimensions 8.0 x 6.0 x 5.5
Weight 486.00
Original Classification CR2 Chondrite
Mineral Composition (%Fa &  %Fs)
Fayalite (mol%): 3-7; Ferrosilite (mol%): 1-3
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite
Patches of black/brown fusion crust are on the weathered brown exterior. The dark gray to black matrix has abundant inclusions/chondrules of various colors and sizes. Some areas are weathered brown with rust. This meteorite was difficult to break.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Linda Welzenbach and Tim McCoy
The section exhibits large (up to 3 mm), poorly-defined chondrules and CAIs in a dark matrix of mafics and FeO-rich phyllosilicate. Metal is found disseminated throughout, along with abundant sulfides, though very few metal rimmed chondrules are seen. Polysynthetically twinned pyroxene is abundant. Olivines range from Fa3-7 and pyroxenes from Fs1-3Wo1-4. The section is heavily weathered. The meteorite is probably a CR2 chondrite, although the extent of aqueous alteration appears to be less than is typical for CR2 chondrites.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample BUC 10933
Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample BUC 10933 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Lab Photo of Sample BUC 10933 Displaying Splits in Top Orientation 
Data from:
  MB102
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Date:2010
Mass (g):486
Pieces:1
Class:CR2
Weathering grade:B/Ce
Fayalite (mol%):3-7
Ferrosilite (mol%):1-3
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):486
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 44048 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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