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Northwest Africa 10088 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10088 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10088 Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 210 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10088 (NWA 10088) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: Feb 2012 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3) Physical characteristics: The stone exhibited substantial pitting from wind-abrasion; it was entirely desert varnished. Petrography: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) The average chondrule diameter is 600 μm. There are polysynthetically twinned low-Ca clinopyroxene grains. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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