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Northwest Africa 8133
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8133
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8133
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 317 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 840 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 30 Aug 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8133 (NWA 8133)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: Purchased by Adam Aaronson in Temara, Morocco in October 2013.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fairly closely-packed, well-formed, medium-sized (0.3-1.6 mm, mean 1.0±0.5 mm) chondrules. Minerals are olivine, orthopyroxene, pigeonite, subcalcic augite, sodic plagioclase, altered kamacite, chromite and troilite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa3.9-31.4, N = 9; Cr2O3 in ferroan examples = 0.04-0.17 wt.%, mean 0.09 wt.%, sd = 0.05 wt.%, N =7), orthopyroxene (Fs4.1-26.5Wo0.5-3.7, N = 3), pigeonite (Fs6.3Wo8.4), subcalcic augite (Fs4.5Wo33.1).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite L3. Estimation of subtype 3.5 based on histograms of Cr2O3 distribution in ferroan olivine given in Fig. 4 of Grossman and Brearley (2005).

Specimens: 21.9 g including one polished thin section at UWB. The remainder is held by Aaronson.

Bibliography:
  • Grossman J.N. and Brearley A.J. (2005) The onset of metamorphism in ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 40, 87-122. (link)
Data from:
  MB103
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Place of purchase:Temara
Date:P 2013 Oct
Mass (g):317
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):3.9-31.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):4.1-26.5
Wollastonite (mol%):0.5-3.7
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21.9
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:A. Aaronson
Comments:M1610; submitted by A. Irving
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)
Aaronson: Sahara Overland Ltd., Harhora, Temara, 12000, Morocco (private address; updated 3 Jan 2010)
Catalogs:
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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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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