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Volume 42 No. 2 – August 2019

Table 3. Tentative Pairing for New Meteorites

Table 3 summarizes possible pairings of the new specimens with each other and with previously classified specimens based on descriptive data in this newsletter issue. Readers who desire a more comprehensive review of the meteorite pairings in the U.S. Antarctic collection should refer to the compilation provided by Dr. E.R. D. Scott, as published in the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter vol. 9 (no. 2) (June 1986). Possible pairings were updated in Meteoritical Bulletins 76, 79, 82 through 106, which are available online from the Meteoritical Society webpage:

CM2 CHONDRITE

MIL 15301, MIL 15302, MIL 15305, MIL 15450, MIL 15479 and MIL 15489 with MIL 15300

MIL 15304, MIL 15408, MIL 15409, MIL 15410, MIL 15419, MIL 15429 and MIL 15468 with MIL 15303

CV3 CHONDRITE

MIL 15555 with MIL 15480

EUCRITE

DOM 18292 with DOM 18291

HOWARDITE

DOM 18304 with DOM 18165

LUNAR-BASALTIC BRECCIA

DOM 18509, DOM 18543, DOM18666 and DOM 18678 with DOM 18262

MESOSIDERITE

MIL 15058 with MIL 13174

UREILITE

DOM 18255 with DOM 18130