Name: Miller Range 13317 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 13317 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 32.2 g
A patch of glossy black fusion crust covers 25% of the exterior. Areas without fusion crust have a greenish tint with large inclusions visible. The interior is a light to dark gray breccia with white inclusions and numerous clasts ranging in size from 1 mm to 1 cm.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
This meteorite is a breccia comprised of coarse- and fine-grained clasts up to 8 mm in maximum dimension, set in a comminuted matrix. The clasts are heavily shocked to impact melted. Pyroxenes range from Fs28Wo11 to Fs49Wo35 with a nearly continuous range of intermediate compositions. The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~60. Plagioclase is An80-98Or0-1. The meteorite is lunar.
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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