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Miller Range 15489
Basic information Name: Miller Range 15489
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 15489
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 30.2 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 42(2)  (2019)  CM2
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  CM2
Recommended:  CM2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 622 approved meteorites classified as CM2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 14 Aug 2019
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Writeup from AMN 42(2):
Data from:
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State/Prov/County:Antarctica
Date:2015
Latitude:-83.5223
Longitude:157.258
Mass (g):30.237
Pieces:1
Class:CM2
Weathering grade:Be
Fayalite (mol%):1-52
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):30.237
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments: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(2) (2019), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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     Recommended::   (83° 31' 20"S, 157° 15' 29"E)

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     This is 1 of 43856 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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