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LaPaz Icefield 04843 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: LaPaz Icefield 04843 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LAP 04843 Observed fall: No Year found: 2004 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 602 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 21 Feb 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from AMN 29(1):
Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride The exterior has rough, black fusion crust with purple shiny areas. Vugs of plucked areas are visible. The muddy gray matrix has white clasts with evaporites. This meteorite was very hard. Thin Section (,4) Description: Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach The section exhibits large chondrules (up to 3 mm) and CAIs in a dark matrix. Olivines range from Fa1-46 and a single pyroxene is Fs1. The meteorite is an oxidized CV3.
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Data from: MB91 Table 4 Line 690: |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) |