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Miller Range 15222
Basic information Name: Miller Range 15222
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 15222
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 1.26 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  L5
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 41(1)  (2018)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8831 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Field number: 23038
Approved 23 Feb 2018
Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
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Date:2015
Mass (g):1.26
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):22
Ferrosilite (mol%):19
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):1.26
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:SEM; 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 41(1) (2018), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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     Recommended::   (83° 31' 23"S, 157° 7' 1"E)

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     This is 1 of 44248 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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