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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10055 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10055 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: Morocco Mass:  212 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites classified as CVoxA3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: |
Approved 28 Jun 2015 Revised 27 Mar 2024: Updated class per metbull text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10055 (NWA 10055) Morocco Purchased: 2014 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) Petrography: The rock contains abundant fine-grained matrix. There are some fine-grained CAIs and some round, coarser CAIs. The chondrules are of POP and BO types and have a mean size of ~900 µm. The sample is extremely weathered; about 95% of the opaque phases have been altered and there is minor alteration of the silicates. Unrimmed amoeboid olivine inclusions are present. There are no large metal grains (as is common in CR chondrites). Metallic Fe-Ni is rare; the rock does not exhibit a petrofabric. It is an oxidized CV, probably of the Allende subgroup. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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Statistics: This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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