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Northwest Africa 10079
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10079
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10079
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 129 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  Diogenite-pm
Recommended:  Diogenite-pm    [explanation]

This is 1 of 63 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite-pm.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 11 Mar 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10079 (NWA 10079)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2014 Oct

Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite, polymict)

History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in October 2014 from a Moroccan dealer at the Munich Show.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fresh fragmental breccia composed of angular clasts of mostly orthopyroxene (of several different compositions) with accessory anorthite, Al-poor chromite, silica polymorph, olivine, kamacite, Al-rich chromite, ilmenite and troilite, plus several percent of lithic clasts of basaltic and cumulate eucrite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa33.0-39.5, FeO/MnO = 53-55, N = 2), orthopyroxene (Fs20.9Wo0.5; Fs26.0Wo1.8; FeO/MnO = 29-36; N = 2), clinopyroxene host (Fs29.2-30.1Wo41.2-40.5, FeO/MnO = 32-36, N = 2), low-Ca pyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs34.3Wo4.2, FeO/MnO = 28)..

Classification: Diogenite (polymict breccia). The range in Fs content (>5 mol. %) for analyzed orthopyroxenes in this breccia is much greater than in any intact diogenite or monomict diogenite breccia, and the presence of eucritic clasts establishes that it is polymict.

Specimens: 21.78 g including one polished thin section at PSF; main mass with. Kuntz.

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Place of purchase:Munich
Date:P 2014 Oct
Mass (g):129
Pieces:1
Class:Diogenite-pm
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):33.0-39.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.9; 26.0
Wollastonite (mol%):0.5; 1.8
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21.78
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:F. Kuntz
Comments:K239; 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)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names)

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