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Grosvenor Mountains 06054

Basic information

Name: Grosvenor Mountains 06054
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 06054
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 1319 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 31(1)	(2008)	L3
Recommended:			L3.6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 59 approved meteorites classified as L3.6. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 17 Feb 2008

Writeup

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Writeup from AMN 31(1):

Sample No.:	GRO 06054
Location:	Grosvenor Mountains
Field No.:	19303
Dimensions (cm):	12.5 x 8.0 x 5.0
Weight (g):	1319.4
Meteorite Type:	L3 Chondrite
Pairing:

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
The exterior has a brown/black fusion crust with polygonal fractures and minor evaporites. The interior is a dark gray to black matrix, loaded with chondrules and inclusions of various colors. The meteorite is moderately hard.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach and Cari Corrigan
The section exhibits numerous closely-packed, well-defined chondrules of a range of sizes (up to 3 mm) in a black matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Modest shock effects and weathering are present. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa_4-28 and pyroxenes from Fs_4-23. The meteorite is an L3 chondrite (estimated subtype 3.6).

Thin Section Images

Plane-Polarized Light GRO 06054	Cross-Polarized Light GRO 06054

Lab Images

East View GRO 06054	North View GRO 06054	South View GRO 06054	Splits View GRO 06054	West View GRO 06054

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 31(1) (2008), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 94, MAPS 43, 1551-1588 (2008)

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Geography:

Antarctica

Antarctica

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 40744 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 4494 unapproved names)

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