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Northwest Africa 10099 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10099 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10099 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 3.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12727 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [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 10099 (NWA 10099) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2013 July 20 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) Petrography: (A.E. Rubin, UCLA) Meteorite is highly recrystallized, chondrules are very poorly defined. Many plagioclase grains exceed 50 μm in diameter. Average chondrule diameter is difficult to discern, but olivine and pyroxene are highly equilibrated and well within the L range. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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