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Northwest Africa 3208 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 3208 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 3208 Observed fall: No Year found: 2006 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 159 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 341 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 21 Sep 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 99:
Northwest Africa 3208 (NWA 3208) (Northwest Africa) Find date unknown Classification: Iron meteorite (IIIAB) Petrography: Strongly weathered iron, no heat-altered zone. Structure visible upon polishing, less clear upon etching. Kamacite bandwidth ~0.9 mm. Shear-produced offset of ~1 mm in bands near one edge of small (36x14 mm) section. No inclusions, consistent with very high Ir content, at extreme of IIIAB. Geochemistry: Co (mg/g) 4.95, Ni (mg/g) 75.8, Ga (µg/g) 17.7, Ge (µg/g) <50, As (µg/g) 3.25, Ir (µg/g) 18.9, Au (µg/g) 0.48. 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 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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