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Northwest Africa 10052 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10052 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10052 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: Morocco Mass: 44.4 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 185 approved meteorites classified as CR2. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), and CR chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 16 Apr 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10052 (NWA 10052) Morocco Purchased: 2014 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CR2) Petrography: Chondrules average ~800 μm in diameter, consistent with CR. There are no large amoeboid olivine inclusions present. There are many large metal grains, consistent with CR. The matrix modal abundance is ~35 vol.%. Low-Ca pyroxene grains typically exhibit polysynthetic twinning. The mean Cr2O3 content of ferroan olivine grains (n=16) is 0.54±0.16 wt.%. Kamacite contains 92.8% Fe, 5.7% Ni, 0.29% Co, 0.13% P, 0.19% Cr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 2068 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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