Name: Dominion Range 14080 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DOM 14080 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 10.3 g
Brown fusion crust with red/orange rust covers 50% of the exterior of this meteorite. The interior is a black matrix with red/orange rust and metal throughout.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The section exhibits numerous small, well-defined chondrules up to 1.5 mm in a black matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Polysynthetically twinned pyroxene is abundant. The meteorite is moderately weathered. Olivine is Fa15, pyroxene is Fs5-14. The meteorite is a low FeO chondrite of type 4 (Russell et al., MAPS 1998). The meteorite is similar to Willaroy and Suwahib (Buwah).
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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