Name: Miller Range 15043 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 15043 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 278 g
90% of the exterior is covered by dark brown fusion crust with round dark colored weathering spots and some orange rust. Exposed surface is a grey matrix with black, brown and light gray inclusions. Fresh interior is a light colored matrix with some large (~1 mm) gray inclusions and extensive orange rust throughout.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The section exhibits a few poorly defined chondrules (up to 1 mm) in a matrix of coarse metal and sulfide. Olivine is Fa15 and pyroxenes are Fs5 and Fs13. The meteorite is moderately weathered. The meteorite is a low FeO chondrite of type 5 (Russell et al., 1998). While the meteorite is similar in mineral composition to Willaroy and Suwahib (Buwah), the texture suggests that it is not paired with either MIL 15293 or MIL 15362 (classified in the Spring 2019 Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter).
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MIL 15043
Bibliography:
Russell S.S., McCoy T.J., Jarosewich E., and Ash R.D. (1998) The Burnwell, Kentucky, low iron oxide chondrite fall: Description, classification and origin. Meteorit. Planet. Sci.33, 853-856. (link)
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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