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Miller Range 07680
Basic information Name: Miller Range 07680
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 07680
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 2.5 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 33(1)  (2010)  CM2
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  CM2
Recommended:  CM2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 635 approved meteorites classified as CM2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites
Comments: Field number: 18173
Approved 11 Feb 2010
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Writeup from AMN 33(1):
Sample Number MIL 07680
Pairing MIL 07497; MIL 07674; MIL 07675; MIL 07680; MIL 07682; MIL 07692; MIL 07703
Newsletter 33,1
Location Miller Range
Field Number 18173
Dimensions 2.5 x 1.75 x 0.75
Weight 2.470
Original Classification CM2 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride and Roger Harrington
The exteriors of these meteorites have purplish black to black fusion crust with polygonal fractures. The interior matrixes range in color from gray to black, fine grained with white and light gray inclusions. Some have rusty areas and some have evaporites.
Thin Section (,2) Description - McCoy, Cari Corrigan, Linda Welzenbach, Karen Stockstill
The sections are so similar that a single description suffices. The sections consist of moderately abundant small chondrules (up to 0.5 mm), mineral grains, and CAIs set in a black matrix; rare metal and sulfide grains are present. Chondrules are very lightly altered. Olivine compositions are Fa0-55 pyroxene is Fs1-5. Aqueous alteration of the matrix is substantial, but the chondrules are only modestly altered. The meteorites are CM2 chondrites.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MIL 07680
mil07680-685;688,689n.jpg 
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 2
  Line 523:
Mass (g):2.5
Class:CM2
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):0-39
Ferrosilite (mol%):
Classifier:SI
Type spec location:JSC, SI
Main mass:JSC
Comments:Fracturing B
Institutions
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JSC: Mailcode XI, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Jul 2022)
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 33(1) (2010), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
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     Recommended::   (83° 22' 21"S, 156° 14' 24"E)

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