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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10376 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10376 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 103 approved meteorites classified as Lunar. [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 Nov 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10376 (NWA 10376) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Classification: Lunar meteorite History: The meteorite was purchased from the meteorite dealer Med Lamine Ahmed. Physical characteristics: One small grayish individual lacking any fusion crust was found in the northern Sahara. Petrography: The meteorite is a polymict breccia composed of lithic and mineral clasts consolidated in a fine-grained clastic, partly molten and recrystallized matrix. Lithic clasts are dominantly basaltic and gabbroic, mineral clasts include up to 200 μm sized olivine, exsolved pyroxene, and feldspar grains. Accessories are Ti-chromite, pyrrhotite, ilmenite, and silica. Some calcite weathering veins are present. Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs29.3Wo4.8 FeO/MnO=51; Ca-pyroxene: Fs16.3±1.3Wo36.3±2.5 (Fs4.1-18.8Wo31.1-40, n=11, FeO/MnO=41-65); feldspar: An86.3±11.4Ab13.1±11 (An56-93.6Ab6.3-42.3, n=16) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 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 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names) |