Name: Miller Range 15428 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 15428 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 9 g
85% of the exterior has shiny black fusion crust, fractured in areas with large white inclusions visible. Some gray matrix is visible on exposed surface. The interior is a gray matrix with abundant light/dark inclusions of various sizes and a rusty vein runs through the interior.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
This section consists dominantly of coarse-grained pyroxene and plagioclase fragments and polymineralic igneous clasts with sizes up to 2 mm. A single coarse gabbroic clast approaching 1 cm in maximum dimension sits on one edge of the section, which contains laths of feldspar and equant pyroxenes with grain sizes up to 2 mm. Pyroxene compositions span the range from Fs17-63Wo1-44. This meteorite is a brecciated eucrite.
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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