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Northwest Africa 10625 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10625 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10625 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 186.1 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 658 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 30 Apr 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Northwest Africa 10625 (NWA 10625) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2014 Apr Classification: Ureilite History: Purchased by Scott Feek in April 2014 from a dealer in West Jordan, Utah, who had acquired the stone from a Moroccan source. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Aggregate of olivine (grainsize 0.9±0.4 mm) and twinned pigeonite (some as oikocrysts up to 8 mm long) with accessory graphite. Olivine has highly magnesian reduced rims containing tiny inclusions of Fe metal. Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa15.9-16.4; rim Fa2.5; N = 3), pigeonite (Fs13.6-13.7Wo7.4-7.3, N = 2). Classification: Ureilite. Specimens: 22.65 g plus one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. S. Feek. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB105 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) |
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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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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