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Northwest Africa 10756 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10756 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10756 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 125 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 336 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 13 Aug 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Northwest Africa 10756 (NWA 10756) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Sep Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Purchased by Eric Twelker in September 2015 from a Moroccan dealer at the Denver Show. Physical characteristics: A single stone (125 g) lacking fusion crust and consisting of beige, white and red-brown stained clasts in a dark-gray matrix. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia composed of shocked gabbroic clasts and related crystalline debris, plus sparse devitrified glass clasts in a finer matrix containing vesicular glass. Minerals are olivine, pigeonite, exsolved pigeonite, augite, anorthite, Ti-poor chromite, Ti-rich chromite and ilmenite. Minor secondary calcite veinlets and barite are present. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa19.1-41.9, FeO/MnO = 69-78, N = 4), pigeonite (Fs41.0Wo5.2, FeO/MnO = 51), augite (Fs9.8Wo42.8, FeO/MnO = 36), low-Ca pyroxene host (Fs56.7Wo5.6, FeO/MnO = 56), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs30.2Wo39.1, FeO/MnO = 52), anorthite (An96.8Or0.2). Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia). Specimens: 20.5 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Twelker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) Twelker: Eric Twelker, P.O. Box 844, Port Townsend, WA 98368, United States; Website (private address; updated 1 Dec 2014) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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