Name: Miller Range 13019 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 13019 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 67.5 g
50% of the exterior has glossy jet black fusion crust with gray weathered areas and minor fractures. The interior is a white/gray matrix with fracture lines throughout. Some inclusions/clasts are visible.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The meteorite is unbrecciated, but with extensive shock veining cross cutting the sample. Shock veins form a network with widths of 1 mm. Shock effects are extensive throughout the sample. Mineral compositions are homogeneous with orthopyroxene (Fs60Wo2), with lamellae of augite (Fs25Wo44), and plagioclase (An87Or0.5). The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~28. The meteorite is a 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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