Name: Miller Range 11294 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 11294 Observed fall: No Year found: 2011 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 3.8 g
98% of the exterior has black fusion crust with a glassy appearance on some surfaces and one rusty patch. Areas without fusion crust are white to light gray in color. The interior is a gray to tan matrix with light and dark grains, and minor oxidation.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan and Andrew Beck
The section shows a groundmass of comminuted pyroxene and plagioclase (up to 0.5 mm, but typically less than 10 microns) with basaltic eucrite clasts ranging up to 3 mm and one diogenitic fragment. Most of the pyroxene is orthopyroxene with compositions ranging from Fs32-60Wo5-36(most Wo2-10). Plagioclase is An78-89Or0-2. The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~28-32. This meteorite is a howardite.
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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