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Northwest Africa 10063
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10063
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10063
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 920 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 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 5 Apr 2015
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Northwest Africa 10063 (NWA 10063)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: Purchased from Morocco, 2014.

Physical characteristics: Three identical appearing pieces with weathered exterior. A saw cut reveals many densely packed chondrules of variable size set in a dark reddish ground mass.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Microprobe examination of a polished mount shows numerous unequilibrated chondrules, apparent mean diameter 530±320 μm (n=58), many with porphyritic, igneously zoned olivines and pyroxenes. Some scattered, opaque, fine-grained matrix is present.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee and N. Muttik, UNM) Chondrule olivine Fa24.6±7.3, range Fa1.7-31.6, Fe/Mn=70±49, Cr2O3=0.05±0.04 wt%, n=44, chondrule low-Ca pyroxene Fs11.5±6.5Wo0.9±1.1, Fe/Mn=28±16, n=21.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite L3, estimated type 3.4-3.6 based on mean values and 1-sigma of Fa and Cr2O3-content of ferroan olivines.

Specimens: 23.6 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Steve Arnold holds the main mass.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2014
Mass (g):920
Pieces:3
Class:L3
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.6±7.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):11.5±6.5
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±1.1
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):23.6
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Steve Arnold
Comments:Fieldname SA-1; 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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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