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Volume 34 No. 1 – February 2011

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 98, which are available online from the Meteoritical Society Webpage.

ACAPULOITE/LODRANITE

MIL 07259 with MIL 07409

CB CHONDRITE

MIL 07404, MIL 07558, and MIL 07598 with MIL 05082

CO3 CHONDRITE

DOM 08351 with DOM 08004

CV3 CHONDRITE

MIL 07385, MIL 090172, MIL 090174, MIL 090175, MIL 090176, MIL 090177, MIL 090178, and MIL 090184 with MIL 07590

EH3 CHONDRITE

MIL 07028, MIL 07139, and MIL 07654 paired with MIL 07241

L CHONDRITE (IMPACT MELT)

DOM 08337 with DOM 08397

UREILITES

MIL 090356 with MIL 090340