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Northwest Africa 6571 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6571 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6571 Observed fall: No Year found: 2010 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 932 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 470 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CV3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 6 Sep 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 102:
Northwest Africa 6571 (NWA 6571) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2010 May Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well-formed ellipsoidal to irregular, granular chondrules (some with concentric dust rims) set in a very fine grained, dark brown, ferroan silicate and sulfide-rich matrix. The matrix contains sparse grains of pentlandite, Ni-bearing troilite, and taenite, as well as some small CAI composed of spinel and perovskite. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Revision history: |
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