Sample No.:	LAP 04521
Location:	LaPaz Ice Field
Field No.:	17684
Dimensions (cm):	2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5
Weight (g):	7.136
Meteorite Type:	H5 Chondrite

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
75% brown/black fusion crust with oxidation haloes covers the exterior of this ordinary chondrite. The interior is a fine grained black to dark gray matrix.

 

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The meteorite is an H5 chondrite (Fa₁₉, Fs₁₇) with a several mm wide shock vein with rounded blebs of metal and sulfide and moderately abundant clasts of single mineral grains. The unmelted host is severely shock blackened.

Thin Section Images

Plane-Polarized Light LAP 04521	Reflected Light LAP 04521	Cross Polarized Light LAP 04521

Lab Images