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Northwest Africa 10736
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10736
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10736
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 237 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 27 Jun 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10736 (NWA 10736)

Morocco

Purchased: 2015

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

History: Purchased from a local dealer in Quarzazate in 2015.

Physical characteristics: One stone of 237 g. Cut face is dark gray with some lighter gray to brown chondrule like objects, many reddish inclusions, troilite, and fresh metal.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Microscopic examination of a thin section shows recrystallized and shocked matrix: mosaicism in olivine, undulatory extinction in plagioclase, strong metal/sulfide penetration in silicate fractures. Chondrules poor developed (0.8 mm).

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Olivine Fa24.6±0,2 (n=10); pyroxene Fs20.5±0.2Wo1.9±0.1(n=5). Kamacite Ni=8.9, Co=1.0 wt.-%). Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.92.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

Specimens: 20.1 g on deposit at Kiel, main mass Dieter Janek, Eppan

Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Quarzazate
Date:P 2015
Mass (g):237
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):24.6±0,2 (n=10)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.5±0.2 (n=5)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.9±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.92
Classifier:Bart
Type spec mass (g):20.1
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Dieter Janek, Eppan, Italy
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name DJ07; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz
Institutions
   and collections		 Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)
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:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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