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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10392 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10392 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 1007 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 408 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 10 Dec 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10392 (NWA 10392) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Jul Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict) History: Purchased in Temara, Morocco by Adam Aaronson in July 2015. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fresh matrix-rich fragmental breccia composed of eucrite clasts with variable grainsize and texture (intersertal to diabasic) plus related crystal debris and sparse grains of diogenitic orthopyroxene. Exsolved pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorph, olivine, ilmenite, chromite, troilite and rare zircon. Geochemistry: Clinopyroxene host (Fs31.1Wo39.8, FeO/MnO = 32), orthopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs66.4Wo1.6, FeO/MnO = 30), low-Ca pyroxene host (Fs55.8Wo6.6, FeO/MnO = 33), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs28.5Wo39.7, FeO/MnO = 34), diogenitic orthopyroxene (Fs26.4Wo3.4, FeO/MnO = 29; Fs30.7Wo3.9, FeO/MnO = 33), clinopyroxene inclusion in more ferroan orthopyroxene (Fs13.0Wo43.1, FeO/MnO = 23), olivine (Fa76.9-77.5, FeO/MnO = 42-44, N = 2). Classification: Eucrite (polymict breccia). Specimens: 20.1 g including one polished thin section at UWB; main mass with Aaronson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) Aaronson: Sahara Overland Ltd., Harhora, Temara, 12000, Morocco (private address; updated 3 Jan 2010) |
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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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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