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Northwest Africa 10665
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10665
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10665
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 24.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 343 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
Search for other: Lunar meteorites
Comments: Approved 11 Jun 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10665 (NWA 10665)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2016 Mar

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in March 2016 from a dealer in Zagora, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: A single dark stone (24.73 g) lacking fusion crust. The fresh interior contains ~30 vol% of white and beige clasts in a fine-grained black matrix.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Relatively fine-grained breccia composed of mineral fragments (anorthite, pigeonite, exsolved pigeonite, olivine, augite, chromite, ilmenite, troilite, kamacite) plus some glass fragments in a finer grained matrix.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa7.3; Fa26.7; Fa 38.2; FeO/MnO = 74-87, N = 3), orthopyroxene host in exsolved pigeonite (Fs34.3Wo3.2, FeO/MnO = 48), pigeonite (Fs33.0Wo7.2, FeO/MnO = 49), augite (Fs16.3-18.0Wo35.1-37.8; Fs11.0Wo42.3; FeO/MnO = 36-42, N = 3), plagioclase (An96.7-97.3Or0.1, N = 2).

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia).

Specimens: 5.01 g in the form of one polished endcut at PSF; remainder with Kuntz.

Data from:
  MB105
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Place of purchase:Zagora
Date:P 2016 Mar
Mass (g):24.73
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):7.3; 26.7; 38.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):34.3; 33.0; 16.3-18.0; 11.0
Wollastonite (mol%):3.2; 7.2; 35.1-37.8; 42.3
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):5.01
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:F. Kuntz
Comments:K295; 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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