Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 10385

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Northwest Africa 10385

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 10385
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10385
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 77 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	CO3
Recommended:			CO3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 645 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CO3. [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites

Comments:

Approved 1 Nov 2015

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10385 (NWA 10385)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015 Jan

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3)

History: Bought by Luc Labenne in Erfoud in 2015

Physical characteristics: Dull brownish stone without fusion crust. Cut surface reveals dark brown interior with small chondrules.

Petrography: Small chondrules (average size about 200 μm), mostly of type I, and CAIs (to 500 μm) set in a fine grained metal-rich matrix. Abundant FeNi blobs in the chondrules and the matrix.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa_16.1±14.5(PMD=84%, N=13). Cr₂O₃ in ferroan olivines 0.31±0.07 wt%. Low-Ca pyroxene Fs_2.6Wo_0.7(N=1). log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.74.

Classification: CO3

Specimens: 20.6 g at CEREGE. Main mass with Labenne

Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
  Line 0:

Place of purchase:	Erfoud
Date:	P 2015 Jan
Mass (g):	77
Pieces:	1
Class:	CO3
Weathering grade:	Severe
Fayalite (mol%):	16.1±14.5 (PMD=84%, N=13)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	2.6 (N=1)
Wollastonite (mol%):	0.7
Magnetic suscept.:	4.74
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, H. Pourkhorsandi, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	20.6
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	Labenne Luc
Finder:	Labenne Luc
Comments:	Submitted by J. Gattacceca

Institutions
and collections

CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)

Also see:

This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Revision
history:

This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page