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Northwest Africa 10480
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10480
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10480
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 33 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  Lunar
Recommended:  Lunar    [explanation]

This is 1 of 106 approved meteorites classified as Lunar.   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 24 Jan 2016
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Northwest Africa 10480 (NWA 10480)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015

Classification: Lunar meteorite

History: The meteorite was purchased from the Moroccan meteorite dealer Ismaili at the mineral fair in Munich, Germany.

Physical characteristics: One small individual covered with a black shiny crust was recovered from the north-African Sahara.

Petrography: The meteorite is a polymict breccia composed of lithic and mineral clasts set in a fine-grained clastic matrix. Lithic clasts are dominantly gabbroic, basaltic and impact melt up to 5 mm in size; mineral clasts include olivine, fayalite, pyroxene with very fine exsolution lamellae, and feldspar grains. Accessories are pigeonite (Fs55.3Wo13.7), Ti-chromite, ilmenite, and silica. Some melt veins and pockets are present.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa34.1±2.2 (Fa31.7-40.3, n=24) FeO/MnO mean= 100±9; fayalite: Fa92.3±3.9 (Fa83.7-97, n=26) FeO/MnO mean= 97±5; Ca-pyroxene: Fs39.1±9.5Wo32.4±9.6 (Fs29.7-55.8Wo20.3-43.3, n=33, FeO/MnO mean= 79±11.9); calcic plagioclase: An93.4±1.6 (An90.2-94.6, n=16)

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Munich, Germany
Date:P 2015
Mass (g):33
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):34.1; 92.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):39.1
Wollastonite (mol%):32.4
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):6.6
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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