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Northwest Africa 10735
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10735
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10735
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 620 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  LL3-5
Recommended:  LL3-5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites classified as LL3-5.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 23 Jul 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10735 (NWA 10735)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2016

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3-5)

History: The meteorite was bought in 2016 from a local meteorite dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Petrography: The meteorite is a chondritic breccia consisting of an LL3 host and LL5 clasts. Plagioclase grain size in LL5 clasts is about 40 μm.

Geochemistry: Olivine and pyroxene in LL3 host are highly unequilibrated with Fa15.6±8.3 (Fa2.9-29.4, n=27) and Fs13.6±6.7Wo0.8±0.8 (Fs3.1-23.8Wo0.2-3.5, n=24). In LL5 clasts olivine and pyroxene are equilibrated at Fa29.7±0.4, n=15 and Fs24.3±0.4Wo2.6±0.3, n=14.

Data from:
  MB105
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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P 2016
Mass (g):620
Pieces:1
Class:LL3-5
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):15.6; 29.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):13.6; 24.3
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8; 2.6
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Harald Stehlik
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Stehlik: Harald Stehlik, 1220 Wien, Austria (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 8559 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1896 unapproved names)

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