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Northwest Africa 6017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6017 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6017 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 212 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3-5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 12 Nov 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 6017 (NWA 6017) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2009 Oct Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3-5) History: Purchased from a Moroccan mineral dealer at the mineral show in Munich, Germany Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Genomict ordinary chondrite breccia with moderate amounts of Fe-Ni metal. It is dominated by chondritic components of petrologic type 5, with smaller amounts of type 3 components. Shock-darkened chondrite clasts and clast-poor impact melt rocks occur. Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: Mean compositions of olivine and low-Ca pyroxene in the various clast types: Petrologic type 3: Fa16.6±6.9 (Fa8.8-30.0; n=15); Fs11.5±5.5Wo1.3±1.0 (Fs3.8-22.8Wo0.1-2.9; n=10). Petrologic type 5: Fa24.9±0.2 (Fa24.5-25.2; n=9); Fs20.5±0.4Wo1.4±0.2 (Fs19.8-21.1Wo1.2-1.6; n=9). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB111 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012) |
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References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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