Name: Miller Range 15515 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 15515 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 5.3 g
65% of the exterior is covered with a very dark brown-black fusion crust. The exposed surface is dark brown with numerous rounded inclusions (0.5-4mm) that are light grey and light brown. There is also some orange rust present. Fresh interior is a black matrix with light grey, light brown and dark brown round inclusions (up to 2mm) and orange rust throughout.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The section exhibits numerous small, well-defined chondrules (up to 2 mm) in a black matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Weak shock effects are present. Polysynthetically twinned pyroxene is common. The meteorite is moderately weathered. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa5-37, and pyroxenes from Fs1-18. The meteorite is an L3 chondrite (estimated subtype 3.5).
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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