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Miller Range 05076

Basic information

Name: Miller Range 05076
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 05076
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2005
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 59.5 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 30(1)	(2007)	L3
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 92	(2007)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Field number: 18155
Approved 16 Feb 2007

Writeup

Writeup from AMN 30(1):

Sample No.:	MIL 05076
Location:	Miller Range
Field No.:	18155
Dimensions (cm):	4.0x3.0x2.0
Weight (g):	59.524
Meteorite Type:	L3 Chondrite

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
100% of the exterior surface has smooth brown/black pitted fusion crust. The interior is dark brown to black matrix with small light colored chondrules.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Valerie Reynolds
The section exhibits numerous well-defined chondrules (up to 1.5 mm) in a black matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Weak shock effects are present. Polysynthetically twinned pyroxene is present. The meteorite is moderately weathered. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa_3-33 and pyroxenes from Fs_5-31. The meteorite is an L3 chondrite (estimated subtype 3.5).

Thin Section Images

Cross-Polarized Light MIL 05076	Plane-Polarized Light MIL 05076

Lab Images

Data from:
  MB92
  Table 3
  Line 882:

Mass (g):	59.5
Class:	L3
Weathering grade:	B

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 30(1) (2007), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 92, MAPS 42, 1647-1694 (2007)

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photographs from AMN:
JSC	A photo is in the write-up above

Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(83° 18' 8"S, 155° 44' 56"E)

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This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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