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Northwest Africa 3206 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 3206 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 3206 Observed fall: No Year found: 2004 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 174 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-sLH. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 21 Sep 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 99:
Northwest Africa 3206 (NWA 3206) (Northwest Africa) Find date unknown Classification: Iron meteorite (IAB-sLH) Petrography: Meteorite has a fine, uniform plessitic texture; there is no pattern, so it is best classified as an ataxite. It is compositionally a member of IAB-sLH whose other members show octahedral structures. The meteorite is nearly identical in composition to LEW 86540 which exhibits a pattern with bandwidth of ~0.03 mm. Geochemistry: Co (mg/g) 5.97, Ni (mg/g) 195.2, Ga (µg/g) 3.52, Ge (µg/g) <80, As µg/g) 28.5, Ir (µg/g) 0.049, Au (µg/g) 1.80. Submitter: J. T. Wasson, UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB99 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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