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Dominion Range 18597
Basic information Name: Dominion Range 18597
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: DOM 18597
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 41.4 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8290 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: JSC Description
Approved 14 Sep 2021
Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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State/Prov/County:Antarctica
Date:2018
Latitude:-85.6519
Longitude:167.1730
Mass (g):41.403
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):26
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
Magnetic suscept.:4.7
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):41.403
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:SEM; submitted by AMN
Institutions
   and collections		 JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013)
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 44(2) (2021), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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     Recommended::   (85° 39' 7"S, 167° 10' 23"E)

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     This is 1 of 43352 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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