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LaPaz Icefield 10014
Basic information Name: LaPaz Icefield 10014
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAP 10014
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 1489 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 38(1)  (2015)  EL6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  EL6
Recommended:  EL6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 130 approved meteorites classified as EL6.   [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Comments: Approved 12 Feb 2015
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Writeup from AMN 38(1):
Sample Number LAP 10014
Newsletter 38,1
Location LaPaz Icefield
Field Number 22331
Dimensions 12.0 x 12.0 x 7.0
Weight 1488.90
Original Classification EL6 Chondrite
Mineral Composition (%Fa &  %Fs)
Ferrosilite (mol%): 0-1
Weathering
B
Fracturing
A/B
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite
Half of the exterior is covered with black/brown fusion crust and heavy oxidation. Some areas are rusty and evaporites are present. The interior is a dark gray to black matrix with metal and some oxidation. This meteorite was very difficult to break.
Thin Section Description (,4) - Cari Corrigan and Tim McCoy
This meteorite consists largely of prismatic or granular enstatite (grain size 0.1-0.2 mm) and nickel-iron, and minor amounts of sulfide and plagioclase. Only vague traces of chondritic structure are visible in this section. One end of the section exhibits a metal grain (8 x 3 mm) that is dominantly composed of iron nickel metal with rounded troilite-daubreelite inclusions up to 700 microns across, and lathes of graphite up to 1 mm in length. A single grain of sinoite was also observed in the section. Microprobe analyses show that the enstatite is almost pure MgSiO3 (Fs0.1-0.4). The meteorite is an EL6 chondrite.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample LAP 10014
Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying Sample Splits View  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying Bottom Orientation  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying East Orientation  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying North Orientation 
Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying South Orientation  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying Top Orientation  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10014 Displaying West Orientation  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample LAP 10014 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Date:2010
Mass (g):1488.9
Pieces:1
Class:EL6
Weathering grade:B
Ferrosilite (mol%):0-1
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):1488.9
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 38(1) (2015), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 43857 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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