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Miller Range 11278
Basic information Name: Miller Range 11278
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 11278
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 10.8 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 37(2)  (2014)  LL5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  LL5
Recommended:  LL5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 3314 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as LL5.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Field number: 22800
Approved 8 Sep 2014
Data from:
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Date:2011
Mass (g):10.8
Pieces:1
Class:LL5
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):29
Ferrosilite (mol%):24
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):10.8
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 37(2) (2014), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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     Recommended::   (83° 30' 0"S, 156° 44' 46"E)

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