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Miller Range 090103
Basic information Name: Miller Range 090103
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 090103
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 52.6 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 33(2)  (2010)  CK5-6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 99  (2011)  CK5-6
Recommended:  CK5/6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites classified as CK5/6.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated), CK chondrites, CK chondrites (type 4-6), and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Field number: 20757
Approved 12 Sep 2010
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Writeup from AMN 33(2):
Sample Number MIL 090103
Newsletter 33,2
Location Miller Range
Field Number 20757
Dimensions 4.0 x 3.5 x 2.5
Weight 52.58
Original Classification CK5-6 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Roger Harrington
3% of the exterior of this sample is covered with a shiny dark brown fusion crust. The remaining 97% is broken surface consisting of dark gray fine-grained matrix with four 1-2 mm gray clasts on the one surface. The interior of this sample is a medium gray fine-grained matrix.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The section consists of poorly-defined chondrules (up to 1 mm) in a matrix of finer-grained silicates, sulfides and abundant magnetite. Silicates are homogeneous. Olivine is Fa32 and orthopyroxene is Fs8-10. The meteorite is a CK5-6 chondrite.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MIL 090103
Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Bottom View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Top View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Top East View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Top North View 
Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Top South View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Top West View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090103 Showing Splits  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090103 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25x Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090103 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25x Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090103 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5x Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090103 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5x Magnification 
Data from:
  MB99
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Date:2009
Mass (g):52.6
Class:CK5-6
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):32
Ferrosilite (mol%):8-10
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):52.6
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Institutions
   and collections		 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(2) (2010), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (83° 21' 4"S, 156° 18' 36"E)

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     This is 1 of 45041 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)
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