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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10095 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10095 Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 599 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2060 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 17 Apr 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10095 (NWA 10095) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: Apr 2012 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L4) Physical characteristics: The find consists of two desert-varnished, unoxidized fragments. They are green-gray in color and exhibit many chondrules, some with visible white rims. A small patch of abraded fusion crust is present on one fragment. Petrography: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) Average chondrule diameter is ~400 μm, consistent with an L-chondrite. Polysynthetically twinned low-Ca clinopyroxene is present, but rare, and the lack of glass in chondrules is indicative of a higher degree of metamorphism than observed in type 3 chondrites. Chondrules are well defined, indicative of type 4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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