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Northwest Africa 10050

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 10050
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10050
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: Morocco
Mass: 407 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	L6-melt breccia
Recommended:			L6-melt breccia [explanation]

This is 1 of 79 approved meteorites classified as L6-melt breccia. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 16 Apr 2015

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10050 (NWA 10050)

Morocco

Purchased: 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6, melt breccia)

Petrography: In the light-colored, impact-melted portion contains olivine. Olivine exhibits weak mosaicism, but the plagioclase grains do not contain maskelynite. It is an impact melt with a glassy mesostasis. This portion contains several shock veins. In the dark-colored, chondritic portion contains olivine. Plagioclase grains are coarse and exceed 50 μm in size. Some grains are maskelynite.

Geochemistry: In the light-colored, impact-melted portion: olivine Fa_24.1±0.2(n=15), low-Ca pyroxene Fs_20.8±0.4Wo_1.4±0.2(n=10), and Ca-pyroxene Fs_7.0±0.3Wo_45.8±0.5(n=11). In the dark-colored, chondritic portion: olivine Fa_24.3±0.6(n=12) and low-Ca pyroxene Fs_20.4±0.2Wo_1.6±0.2(n=14).

Data from:
  MB104
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Place of purchase:	Erfoud
Date:	P 2014
Mass (g):	406.82
Pieces:	1
Class:	L6-melt breccia
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W5
Classifier:	A. Rubin and J. Breen, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	22.57
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	Sean Tutorow
Comments:	G515; submitted by S. Tutorow

Institutions
and collections

UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)

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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:

Morocco

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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