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Miller Range 090780
Basic information Name: Miller Range 090780
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MIL 090780
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 145.1 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 34(2)  (2011)  EL6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  EL6
Recommended:  EL6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 130 approved meteorites classified as EL6.   [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Comments: Field number: 20556
Approved 10 Sep 2011
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Writeup from AMN 34(2):
Sample Number MIL 090780
Newsletter 34,2
Location Miller Range
Field Number 20556
Dimensions 5.5 x 4.0 x 3.5
Weight 145.07
Original Classification EL6 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride
<5% of the surface is covered with small black patches of fusion crust with evaporites. The black fine grained interior has tan to white weathering products along the exterior edge. There is rusting in some areas and green alteration zones along fractures. The meteorite is very hard and dense.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Linda Welzenbach and Nicole Lunning
The section shows an aggregate of chondrules (up to 1 mm), chondrule fragments, and pyroxene grains in a matrix of about 30% metal and sulfide. Weathering is moderate, with staining of some enstatite grains and minor alteration of metal and sulfides. Microprobe analyses show pyroxenes of composition Fs0-3Wo0-1 and 1.8 wt% Si in the metal. The meteorite is an enstatite chondrite, EL6.
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample MIL 090780
Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090780 Displaying North View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090780 Showing North View  Lab Photo of Sample MIL 090780 Displaying North View 
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 976:
Date:2009
Mass (g):145.1
Pieces:1
Class:EL6
Weathering grade:Ce
Ferrosilite (mol%):0-3
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):145.1
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Submitted by AMN
Institutions
   and collections		 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 34(2) (2011), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (83° 24' 28"S, 156° 40' 5"E)

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