Name: Buckley Island 10948 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: BUC 10948 Observed fall: No Year found: 2010 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 41.6 g
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride and Cecilia Satterwhite
All of the exteriors of these chondrites have shiny brown/black weathered fusion crust with oxidation haloes, rust and fractures. The interiors have a rusty black/brown matrix with oxidation, fractures and metal.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan and Linda Welzenbach
These sections consist of chondrules and chondrule fragments. Many of the silicates are mosaicized. In some, clasts are obvious (up to 1 cm), with melt veins present only in some sections. One obvious area of the section exhibits metal sulfide melt textures and some sections (BUC 10934, for example) exhibit metal and sulfides that appear slightly aligned into a petrofabric, with obvious fracturing in a direction perpendicular to the alignment of metal/sulfide. BUC 10939 shows sulfide mobility along abundant small fractures, with immiscibility textures evident in those veins. Olivine compositions are Fa23-24, pyroxene Fs20Wo1. These meteorites are similar enough to warrant initial pairing. The meteorites are shock blackened L6 chondrites.
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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