Name: Miller Range 15014 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 15014 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 123.5 g
Most of exterior of this meteorite is weathered brown with some black pitted fusion crust. The interior is black matrix with brown weathered areas.
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy
The section is dominated by a >1 cm region of shock melt which contains relict clasts and chondrules in a fine grained matrix with metal and sulfide blebs. A corner of the section is unmelted chondritic material of petrologic type 5 with relict chondrules. Olivines are Fa11-31 and pyroxenes are Fs25Wo2. This meteorite is an ordinary chondrite impact melt breccia, probably an LL chondrite.
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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