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Northwest Africa 10778
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10778
     This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite.
Abbreviation: NWA 10778
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 5.4 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  LL5
Recommended:  LL5    [explanation]

Comments: Entered 23 Jul 2016
Revised 29 Jul 2021: Discredited. Duplicate with NWA 10730
Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
Date:P 2002
Mass (g):5.4
Pieces:1
Class:LL5
Weathering grade:W0
Magnetic suscept.:3.84
Classifier:Jérôme Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):1.4
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:N. Tourment
Comments:Submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
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   and collections
CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 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:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.
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