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Northwest Africa 8010
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8010
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8010
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 58 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 344 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 14 Oct 2013
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Northwest Africa 8010 (NWA 8010)

Morocco

Found: 2013

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Reported found near Zagora, 2013.

Physical characteristics: Single stone, gray-brown fusion crust, black melt veins visible through the crust. Saw cut reveals dark breccia clasts with fragmental feldspar and light fine-grained clasts up to 1-2 cm, bounded by black shock melt veins 1-4 mm wide, melt veins contain vesicles up to 1 mm.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Fragmental breccia with melt veins. Anorthositic and gabbroic clasts, fragmental plagioclase, pyroxene, olivine, oxides and sulfides set in a cataclastic groundmass. Abundant glassy melt veins with suspended submicron metal/sulfide blebs, plumose quench crystal zones up to 1 mm wide at groundmass cooling contacts. Vesicles confined mostly in the center of melt veins. Shock melt spherule 500 μm.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee and N. Muttik, UNM). Olivine Fa31.7±7.5, Fe/Mn=93±5, n=14; forsteritic olivine Fa7.4±1.5, Fe/Mn=100±16, n=2; pyroxene Fs33.8±11.1Wo17.0±9.9, Fe/Mn=57±7, n=21; plagioclase An96.2±1.3Ab3.4±1.2Or0.4±0.2, n=10; glassy impact melt (mean value from EMPA with 20 μm beam) SiO2=45.55±1.28, TiO2=0.52±0.23, Al2O3=25.34±2.86, Cr2O3=0.13±0.03, MgO=7.54±2.21, FeO=5.99±1.03, MnO=0.08±0.03, CaO=14.35±1.41, Na2O=0.42±0.16, K2O=0.16±0.07 (all wt%), n=7.

Classification: Achondrite (lunar meteorite). Feldspathic impact melt breccia. Chemical composition of glassy impact melt (proxy for bulk composition) is that of high-alumina basalt.

Specimens: A total of 11.6 g, including a probe mount, is on deposit at UNM, MtMorgan and Reed hold the main mass.

Data from:
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Date:2013
Mass (g):58
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):11.6
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Matt Morgan and Blaine Reed
Comments:Submitted by C. Agee
Institutions
   and collections		 UNM: Institute of Meteoritics MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015)
MtMorgan: Matt Morgan, Mile High Meteorites, P.O. Box 151293, Lakewood, CO 80215-9293, United States; Website (private address)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2163 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 32 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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