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LaPaz Icefield 03922
Basic information Name: LaPaz Icefield 03922
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LAP 03922
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 16 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 29(1)  (2006)  H-imp melt
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 91  (2007)  H-imp melt
Recommended:  H-imp melt    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as H-imp melt.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2005
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Writeup from AMN 29(1):
Sample No.: LAP 03922
Location: LaPaz Ice Field
Field No.: 16471
Dimensions (cm):   3.0x2.0x1.5
Weight (g): 15.997
Meteorite Type: H Chondrite (Impact Melt)
LAP 03922


Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
Black fusion crust covers 40% of this meteorite's exterior. The interior is rusty with high metal content.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Valerie Reynolds
Plane-Polarized LightReflected Light
LAP 03922 - Plane-Polarized Light LAP 03922 - Reflected Light
The section consists of highly-shocked clasts of H chondrite (Fa19, Fs17) material in a shock-melted matrix of relict crystals set in a fine-grained igneous matrix with metal-sulfide blebs.
Data from:
  MB91
  Table 4
  Line 395:
Mass (g):16
Class:H (IM)
Weathering grade:C
Fayalite (mol%):19
Ferrosilite (mol%):17
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 29(1) (2006), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 91, MAPS 42, 413-466 (2007)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 44248 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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