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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 7059 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 7059 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 11.73 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 660 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 24 Apr 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 102:
Northwest Africa 7059 (NWA 7059) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2008 Feb Classification: Ureilite History: Purchased by David Gregory at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show in February 2008 and donated to the Royal Ontario Museum. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Coarse-grained, protogranular assemblage of olivine and pigeonite. Olivine exhibits dark, more magnesian rims containing abundant blebby metallic iron. Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa21.1-21.7; rims Fa10.3-11.4; Cr2O3 = 0.6-0.9 wt.%), pigeonite (Fs17.2-17.7Wo7.4-7.3). Classification: Ureilite Specimens: 27 g of sample and one polished thin section are on deposit at UWB. The main mass is held by ROM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011) 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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