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LaPaz Icefield 10033
Basic information Name: LaPaz Icefield 10033
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAP 10033
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 16.9 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 34(2)  (2011)  R6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  R6
Recommended:  R6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites classified as R6.   [show all]
Search for other: Rumuruti chondrites, Rumuruti chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 10 Sep 2011
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Writeup from AMN 34(2):
Sample Number LAP 10033
Newsletter 34,2
Location LaPaz Icefield
Field Number 22308
Dimensions 3.0 x 2.0 x 1.5
Weight 16.879
Original Classification R6 Chondrite
Pairing LAP 10031, LAP 10033
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite
Both of these meteorites have brown/black fusion crust frothy in areas and some oxidation. Areas without fusion crust are a mottled gray color. The mottled gray matrix has numerous dark inclusions.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Linda Welzenbach and Nicole Lunning
These sections are texturally heterogeneous, containing relict chondrules up to 1 mm, isolated mineral grains of 100-200 microns and microcrystalline areas reaching 1 mm with mafic silicate grain sizes of 5-10 microns. Shock effects are pervasive, particularly in plagioclase. The rock consists of FeO-rich olivine (Fa38-39) and orthopyroxene (Fs30-32Wo1). Plagioclase is An8-63Or1-3. Brown, strongly pleochroic hornblende comprises ~15% of the section. Opaques include troilite, pentlandite and chromite. The meteorite is an R chondrite of petrologic type 6. These are likely paired with LAP 04840.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample LAP 10033
Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing Splits View  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing Bottom View  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing North View  Pie Shot of Sample LAP 10033 
Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing Post-processing View  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing South View  Lab Photo of Sample LAP 10033 Showing West View 
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 556:
Date:2010
Mass (g):16.9
Pieces:1
Class:R6
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):38-39
Ferrosilite (mol%):30
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):16.9
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 34(2) (2011), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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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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