Name: Queen Alexandra Range 94411 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: QUE 94411 Observed fall: No Year found: 1994 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 39.7 g
Macroscopic Description: Cecilia Satterwhite
Eighty-five percent of the exterior is covered with dull brown fusion crust. This stone was difficult to break. It is unusual in that at first glance it appears to look chondritic but it is dense. The interior black metal is fine-grained. White angular inclusions as large as 2 mm are scattered throughout. Oxidation is heavy in areas.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Brian Mason
The section consists of nickel-iron with 10-20% of disseminated silicates. The nickel-iron is granular (grains 0.5-1.0 mm), the grains outlined by limonitic alteration. Most of the silicate grains are small (0.1-0.2 mm) and angular, but a few are spherical, and there are some irregular aggregates up to 1.5 mm across. The silicate material is fine-grained and polymineralic, suggestive of devitrified glass. Microprobe analyses show the silicates consist mainly of iron-poor orthopyroxene, with some iron-poor olivine and a little anorthite. The meteorite is tentatively classified as an iron.