Name: Miller Range 13079 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 13079 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 11.6 g
70% of the exterior has glossy jet black fusion crust and minor fractures. Areas without fusion crust are gray with some oxidation. The interior is gray matrix with black and white inclusions and minor weathering.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The section consists of a coarsely comminuted pyroxenes (up to 1 mm) and feldspar (up to 0.5) mm set in a fine-grained matrix. Polyminerallic clasts are scarce, with most fragments being monominerallic. Mineral compositions are homogeneous with orthopyroxene (Fs62Wo2), with lamellae of augite (Fs24Wo47), and plagioclase (An88Or0.5). The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~28. The 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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