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Miller Range 090981
Basic information Name: Miller Range 090981
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 090981
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 38.5 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 35(1)  (2012)  CV3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  CV3
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 46(1)  (2023)  CVred3.1-3.6
Recommended:  CVred3.1-3.6    [explanation]

This is the only approved meteorite classified as CVred3.1-3.6.
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Field number: 20692
Approved 25 Feb 2012
Revised 27 Mar 2024: Reclassified in AMN 46(1)
Writeuphelp
Writeup from AMN 35(1):
Sample Number MIL 090981
Newsletter 35,1
Location Miller Range
Field Number 20692
Dimensions 3.5 x 3.0 x 2.0
Weight 38.49
Original Classification CV3 Chondrite
Mineral Composition (%Fa &  %Fs)
Fayalite (mol%): 0-27
Weathering
B/C
Fracturing
A/B
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride
The exterior of this meteorite has rough, ropey, dull black fusion crust over half of its surface area. The soft interior is dark gray with rusty areas. Some rust stained inclusions and vague chondrules are visible within the soft, dark gray matrix.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy, and Linda Welzenbach
The section exhibits large chondrules (up to 3 mm) and CAIs in a dark matrix. Some chondrules contain metal. The matrix contains oxides and silicate fragments, some of which are chondrule fragments. Olivines range from Fa0-27. The meteorite is an unequilibrated carbonaceous chondrite, probably a CV3.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MIL 090981
Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Plane-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Plane-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Reflected Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Reflected Light with 2.5X Magnification 
Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Cross-Polarized Light with 1.25X Magnification  Thin Section Photo of Sample MIL 090981 in Cross-Polarized Light with 2.5X Magnification  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090981 Showing North View 
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1133:
Date:2009
Mass (g):38.5
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):0-27
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):38.5
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Submitted by AMN
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 35(1) (2012), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (83° 22' 0"S, 156° 28' 8"E)

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