Sample Petrographic Description
Sample Number | MIL 15014 |
Newsletter | 42,2 |
Location | Miller Range |
Field Number | 24095 |
Dimensions (cm) | 5.5 x 4.3 x 3.5 |
Weight (g) | 123.52 |
Original Classification | LL Chondrite (Impt Melt) |
Mineral Composition (%Fa & %Fs) | |
Fayalite (mol%): 11-31;Ferrosilite (mol%): 25 | |
Weathering | |
C | |
Fracturing | |
A | |
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite | |
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. |
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