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Miller Range 15314
Basic information Name: Miller Range 15314
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 15314
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 85.1 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 42(1)  (2019)  LL5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  LL5
Recommended:  LL5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 3315 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: Approved 21 Feb 2019
Data from:
  MB108
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Date:2015
Latitude:-83.5262
Longitude:157.237
Mass (g):85.05
Pieces:1
Class:LL5
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):29
Ferrosilite (mol%):24
Magnetic suscept.:4.18
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):85.05
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Field no: 25857; 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° 31' 34"S, 157° 14' 13"E)

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     This is 1 of 45500 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)
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