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Northwest Africa 10086
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10086
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10086
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1650 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 487 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 17 Apr 2015
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Northwest Africa 10086 (NWA 10086)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: Dec 2011

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

Physical characteristics: A number of partly fusion-crusted fragments were found. The largest single stone recovered weighed approximately 950 g. Most fragments are desert varnished and exhibit abundant chondrules.

Petrography: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) About two-thirds of the olivine grains are in a peak centered at Fa30-32. The average chondrule diameter is 600 μm. There are polysynthetically twinned low-Ca clinopyroxene grains.

Data from:
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Date:P Dec 2011
Mass (g):1650
Pieces:12
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):26.9±6.0 (17.3-32.4, n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.8±10.2 (2.1-20.4, (n=4)
Wollastonite (mol%):3.4±3.5 (n=4)
Classifier:A.E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):21.7
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Utas
Finder:anonymous
Comments:[NWAU212]. Purchased from Rachid Chaoui.; submitted by J. Utas
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: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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