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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 7302 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 7302 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: Morocco Mass: 2.13 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 217 approved meteorites classified as CK5. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated), CK chondrites, CK chondrites (type 4-6), and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 Feb 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Northwest Africa 7302 (NWA 7302) Morocco Found: 2009 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CK5) Petrography: Largely recrystallized matrix dominated by olivine and feldspar. Chondrules are poorly defined and chemically equilibrated with the host matrix. CAIs are visible to the naked eye and some of them have sizes up to few millimeters. Olivine grains in matrix contain porosity and inclusions of opaque minerals (Cr-bearing magnetite and Ni-rich sulfides). Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa34.1±0.3, NiO up to 0.40 wt%), Ca-poor pyroxene (Fs27.5±1.3Wo0.7±0.3), Ca-rich pyroxene (Fs13.2±0.1Wo47.3±0.2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address) Hmani: A. Hmani Moroccan Imports, 13 rue Jules Hardouin Mansart, 92600 Asnières, France (private address) UBP: Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France (institutional address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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