Meteorite: QUE 94201
Location: Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica
Found: December 16, 1994
Type: Shergottite (SNC)
Sample No.: QUE94201 Location: Queen Alexandra Range Dimensions (cm):2.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm Weight (g): 12.0 Meteorite Type: Shergottite
Macroscopic Description: Roberta Score
This small, dark-gray to black stone is rounded and polished. The spotty,
brownish-black, remnant fusion crust is difficult to distinguish from the
melted, glassy grains on the exterior surface. The interior is coarse-grained,
crystalline, and glassy. It is composed of laths or globular grains of
transparent or translucent maskelynite plus dull or glassy-black pyroxene.
Several mafic-rich areas, as large as 5 x 4 mm, were noted. Oxidation is
scattered throughout the interior. Thick evaporite minerals are concentrated as
small blebs.
Thin Section (,3) Description: Brian Mason
The section shows a coarse-grained aggregate of subequal amounts of pyroxene
and maskelynite; the maskelynite as laths up to 3.6 mm long, and the pyroxene
as interstitial anhedral to subhedral grains. Maskelynite is fairly uniform in
composition, An55-64. The pyroxene is pigeonite of variable composition, Wo9-20
and Fs21-69. The meteorite is a shergottite.
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