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Northwest Africa 10677 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10677 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10677 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 234 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites classified as LL(L)3. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 26 May 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Northwest Africa 10677 (NWA 10677) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Oct Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL(L)3) History: Purchased by Marc Jost from a Moroccan dealer at the Munich Show in October 2015. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well formed, fairly closely-packed chondrules (apparent diameter 600 ± 400 µm) are set in a finer grained brown matrix. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa2.9-45.8; Cr2O3 in ferroan examples 0.00-0.09 wt.%, mean 0.08±0.01 wt.%, N = 8), orthopyroxene (Fs2.9-13.4Wo0.4-1.7, N = 3), subcalcic augite (Fs7.6Wo33.6), diopside (Fs1.4Wo40.2). Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL(L)3). Specimens: 20.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder held by SJS. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) SJS: Space Jewels Switzerland, 2555 Brügg, Switzerland (private address; updated 3 Jan 2010) |
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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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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