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Northwest Africa 10095
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:help 599 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

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
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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:
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Date:P Apr 2012
Mass (g):599.1
Pieces:2
Class:L4
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):26.0±0.5 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.8±2.5 (n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8±0.9 (n=8)
Classifier:A.E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):27.35
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Utas
Finder:anonymous
Comments:[U2/NWAU245]. Purchased from Elena Van Scriver.; submitted by J. Utas
Institutions
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UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
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.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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