header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Northwest Africa 10508
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10508
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10508
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2005
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 8 Jan 2016
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10508 (NWA 10508)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2005

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: Purchased by an anonymous collector from a dealer at the Munich Show in 2005 and subsequently donated to the PSF.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well-formed spherical chondrules (apparent diameter 1.0±0.7 mm; one 2.7 mm) are set in a finer matrix. Olivine is mostly equilibrated but magnesian cores are present in some grains.

Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa8.8; predominantly Fa25.3-25.8, N = 4; Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.02-0.07 wt.%), orthopyroxene (Fs3.1-10.2Wo0.5-1.0, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs12.7Wo35.5; Fs15.7Wo28.0, N = 2).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3).

Specimens: The entire specimen including one polished thin section is at PSF.

Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Munich
Date:P 2005
Mass (g):9
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):8.8; 25.3-25.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):3.1-10.2
Wollastonite (mol%):0.5-1.0
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):9
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:PSF
Comments:CHC 15006; 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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/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