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Miller Range 15290
Basic information Name: Miller Range 15290
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 15290
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 2 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 42(1)  (2019)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13099 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2019
Data from:
  MB108
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Date:2015
Latitude:-83.5596
Longitude:156.887
Mass (g):1.998
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):25
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
Magnetic suscept.:4.92
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):1.998
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Field no: 24090; submitted by AMN
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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 42(1) (2019), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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     Recommended::   (83° 33' 35"S, 156° 53' 13"E)

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     This is 1 of 45260 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)
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