Name: Meteorite Hills 001060 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MET 001060 Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 9.8 g
Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
The exterior of this meteorite is covered with a thick, brown-black fusion crust with polygonal fractures. It has a rough texture with small, shiny patches. The interior is composed of rusty or rust stained crystalline material. It has black accessory minerals and a few rounded, white inclusions. The matrix is mostly greenish in color with rust stained mineral grains with striations on the crystal faces. It is also heavily fractured.
Thin Section (, 2) Description: Tim McCoy
Plane-Polarized Light
Cross-Polarized Light
The section is composed of large (up to 3 mm) orthopyroxene crystals. The meteorite is unbrecciated, with abundant 120° triple junctions, although very minor cataclasis may have occurred along grain boundaries. Orthopyroxene has a composition of Fs19Wo1 with an Fe/Mn ratio of ~26. The meteorite is an unbrecciated diogenite.