Sample Petrographic Description
| Sample Number | MIL 15080 |
| Newsletter | 39,2 |
| Location | Miller Range |
| Field Number | 24158 |
| Dimensions (cm) | 4.9 x 2.9 x 2.0 |
| Weight (g) | 38.88 |
| Original Classification | Eucrite (Brecciated) |
| Mineral Composition (%Fa & %Fs) | |
| Ferrosilite (mol%): 48-58 | |
| Weathering | |
| A | |
| Fracturing | |
| A/B | |
| Macroscopic Description - Rachel Funk, Cecilia Satterwhite | |
| Shiny black fusion crust covers ~75% of the exterior. The exposed surface is gray with black shiny white and yellow inclusions ~1 mm in size. The interior has a light gray matrix with white and black crystals throughout. | |
| Thin Section Description (,2) - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy | |
| This meteorite is dominated by course-grained (up to 2 mm average grain size) pyroxene and plagioclase in a brecciated matrix with occasional polymineralic clasts (up to 2.5 mm in maximum dimension). Pyroxenes are exsolved (Fs48-58Wo5-17) and plagioclase (An88-89Or0.5). The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~29. The meteorite is a brecciated eucrite. | |
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| Field photo image(s) courtesy of the ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah | ||||
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