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Northwest Africa 10235

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 10235
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10235
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 437 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	CV3
Recommended:			CV3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 481 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CV3. [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites

Comments:

Approved 4 Sep 2015

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10235 (NWA 10235)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2014 Oct

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in October 2014 from a dealer in Zagora, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Separated granular chondrules (apparent diameter up to 2.8 mm) and amoeboid, very fine-grained CAI are set in a brown matrix (~ 40 vol.%).

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_0.2-76.5, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs_1.3-1.8Wo_1.1-0.9, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs_0.8-2.2Wo_38.7-35.1, N = 2), ferroan clinopyroxene in CAI (Fs_44.6Wo_50.8).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3).

Specimens: 21.95 g including one polished thin section at PSF; main mass with Kuntz.

Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:	Zagora
Date:	P 2014 Oct
Mass (g):	437
Pieces:	many
Class:	CV3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	low
Fayalite (mol%):	0.2-76.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):	1.3-1.8
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.1-0.9
Classifier:	A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):	21.95
Type spec location:	PSF
Main mass:	F. Kuntz
Comments:	K241; submitted by A. Irving

Institutions
and collections

PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; 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