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Northwest Africa 10610
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10610
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10610
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 34.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  CK5
Recommended:  CK5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 215 approved meteorites classified as CK5.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated), CK chondrites, CK chondrites (type 4-6), and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 24 Apr 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10610 (NWA 10610)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CK5)

History: Purchased by Gary in from Morocco, 2015.

Physical characteristics: Single stone with fusion crust. Saw cut surfaces reveal scattered, clearly defined, millimeter-sized, dark-colored chondrules, and a few faint CAIs, set in dark green-brown matrix.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite has distinct, equilibrated, olivine-rich chondrules. The recrystallized matrix consists mainly of olivine and lesser amounts of augite; trace low-Ca pyroxene. The mean diameter of plagioclase grains (~25 μm) indicates type 5. Olivine is nickel-rich and magnetite is present throughout.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee and M. Spilde, UNM) Olivine Fa33.2±0.3, Fe/Mn=127±11, NiO=0.53 wt%, n=11; augite Fs10.8±2.2Wo47.0±1.1, Fe/Mn=84±29, n=9; low-Ca pyroxene Fs27.2±0.0Wo2.3±2.0, Fe/Mn=73±1, n=2.

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CK5)

Specimens: 7.03 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Gary Fujihara holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2015
Mass (g):34.69
Pieces:1
Class:CK5
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):33.2±0.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.8±2.2, 27.2±0.0
Wollastonite (mol%):47.0±1.1, 2.3±2.0
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):7.03
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Gary Fujihara
Comments:Field name GF-3; submitted by C. Agee, UNM
Institutions
   and collections
UNM: Institute of Meteoritics MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015)
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 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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