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Northwest Africa 10070 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10070 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10070 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 82.4 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 281 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 May 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10070 (NWA 10070) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2014 Jun Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict) History: Purchased by Darryl Pitt in June 2014 from a dealer in Mauritania. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fragmental breccia composed of relatively coarse (up to 3 mm), angular grains of exsolved pigeonite and plagioclase (plus rare composite lithic clasts preserving primary grain contacts) within a finer matrix of the same minerals, ilmenite, Ti-chromite, troilite and rare baddeleyite. Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs42.0-43.1Wo3.0-2.6, FeO/MnO = 31-32, N = 3), clinopyroxene exsolution lamellae (Fs17.9-18.5Wo42.9-42.4, FeO/MnO = 26-27, N = 3). Classification: Eucrite (monomict breccia, gabbroic). Specimens: 16.5 g including one polished thin section at UWB. The remainder is held by DPitt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) DPitt: Darryl Pitt, 225 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024, United States; Website (private address) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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