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Northwest Africa 10096
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10096
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10096
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 159.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2062 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 10096 (NWA 10096)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: Feb 2013

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L4)

Physical characteristics: The stone is mostly fusion-crusted. A desert-varnished broken corner exhibits a chondrule ~1 cm in diameter.

Petrography: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) Chondrules are unusually large, with an average diameter of ~600 μm, similar to LL chondrites. Chondrules are well-defined, but polysynthetically twinned, low-Ca pyroxene is rare, consistent with type 4.

Classification: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) (L4) Olivine and pyroxene are consistent with L.

Data from:
  MB104
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Date:P Feb 2013
Mass (g):159.14
Pieces:1
Class:L4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):23.7±0.2 (n=9)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.0±0.2 (n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.1 (n=8)
Classifier:A.E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):20
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Utas
Finder:anonymous
Comments:[U4/NWAU270]. Purchased from Erich Haiderer.; 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)
Haiderer: Erich Haiderer Laboratory, P.O. Box 88, A-1140 Vienna, Austria (private address; updated 7 Jan 2015)
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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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