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Northwest Africa 10317

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 10317
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10317
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Morocco
Mass: 11 g

Classification
history:

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

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Comments:

Approved 7 Oct 2015

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Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10317 (NWA 10317)

Morocco

Purchased: 6 Jul 2015

Classification: Lunar meteorite

History: Histroy: The single individual of 11.0 g was found Morocco and purchased in Dakhla, Morocco, July 6, 2015.

Petrography: (A. Bischoff and S. Ebert, IfP) Fine-grained breccia consisting of small mineral and lithic clasts of anorthositic rocks, impact melt rocks and breccias, granulitic lithologies, anorthite, olivine, pyroxenes, and opaques embedded in a fine-grained, well-lithified matrix.

Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_34.1±2.3, range: Fa_28.8-36.9; mean Fe/Mn =96, n = 10), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs_28.2-69.2Wo_3.8-19.5, mean Fe/Mn = 46.2, n = 5), Ca-pyroxene (Fs_16.9-63.2Wo_24.8-39.2, Fe/Mn = 57.4), plagioclase (An_96.0±1.5; range: An_92.8-97.3; n = 9)

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia)

Specimens: 2.2 g including one polished thin section at IfP; main mass with S. Decker (Meteorite-Museum, 55430 Oberwesel, Germany)

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Place of purchase:	Dakhla, Morocco
Date:	P 6 Jul 2015
Mass (g):	11
Pieces:	1
Class:	Lunar
Classifier:	A. Bischoff and S. Ebert, IfP
Type spec mass (g):	2.2
Type spec location:	IfP
Main mass:	S. Decker (Meteorite-Museum, 55430 Oberwesel, Germany)
Finder:	Unknown
Comments:	Comment: Field Number: 05/2015; submitted by Ebert S.

Institutions
and collections

IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)

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:

Morocco

Morocco

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 2012 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 35 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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