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Northwest Africa 10779 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10779 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10779 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 70 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 522 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 23 Aug 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Northwest Africa 10779 (NWA 10779) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: May 2015 Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite) History: Bought in Erfoud, Morocco, in May 2015. Physical characteristics: A single crusted stone. Cut surface shows a gray interior with brecciated texture. Petrography: Brecciated igneous rock with mineral clasts to several mm in a clastic matrix. Main minerals are pyroxenes (exsolved or not). Accessory plagioclase, olivine, chromite to 3280 μm, phosphate, troilite (aligned as inclusions in some large silicate crystals), Fe-Ni metal to 60 μm. Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene Fs23.3±1.5Wo2.3±0.35, FeO/MnO=32.8±2.1 (N=5). Olivine Fa42.2, FeO/MnO=52.3 (N=1). Plagioclase An88.7Ab10.8Or0.5 (N=1). Chromite Cr/(Cr+Al) = 0.72. Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 2.94. Classification: Achondrite (Diogenite) Specimens: 15 g and a polished section at CEREGE. Main mass with Labenne. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB105 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions 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) Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012) |
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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 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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