Name: Miller Range 090697 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MIL 090697 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 28.9 g
The exterior of this meteorite has black patches of fusion crust. Areas without fusion crust are rusty brown. Half of the interior is a gray matrix with some oxidation and the other half consists of metal.
Thin Section Description (,7) - Tim McCoy
The section examined included two pieces, each ~5 mm in maximum dimension. One piece is comprised dominantly of silicate and is typical of an equilibrated L chondrite. Metal and sulfide exhibit evidence of shock melting, including fizzed texture and shock blackening with trails of metal and/or sulfide. The other piece is >99% metal and includes kamacite and taenite. Silicate inclusions include fragmental pieces of chondritic material and micromelted silicate inclusions with a cellular texture. The meteorite is a shocked L chondrite containing an unusually large metal particle.
JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013) 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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