Name: Miller Range 07682 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 07682 Observed fall: No Year found: 2007 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 5.1 g
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.
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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