Sample Petrographic Description
Sample Number | MIL 090984 |
Newsletter | 35,1 |
Location | Miller Range |
Field Number | 20858 |
Dimensions (cm) | 1.5 x 0.75 x 0.75 |
Weight (g) | 0.77 |
Original Classification | CM1 Chondrite |
Weathering | |
B | |
Fracturing | |
B | |
Macroscopic Description - Kathleen McBride | |
50% of the exterior has dull black fusion crust with polygonal fractures. The interior is a dark gray matrix with mm sized light colored chondrules and clasts. | |
Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy, Emma Bullock, Linda Welzenbach | |
This section contains no chondrules or discernable silicates and only contains black matrix and microprobe analyses yielded no usable data. Sulfides and tochilinite are present. This meteorite looks like a CI, but no magnetite exists, so it is probably a CM1. |
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