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Northwest Africa 10884
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10884
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10884
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 512 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12055 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 15 Oct 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10884 (NWA 10884)

Morocco

Purchased: 20 May 2013

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

History: Purchased via eBay from GHupé/Nature’s Vault on May 20, 2013. Seller said sample was found in Morocco in 2012. Material for classification donated to Cascadia.

Physical characteristics: Already cut face has heavily stained brown interior and exterior. Some metal visible.

Petrography: Consists of readily distinguished chondrules set in a largely transparent matrix, crosscut by numerous weathering veins. Olivine shows undulatory extinction with only a few grains displaying a single set of planar fractures. Troilite, minor metal, and grain-shaped patches of iron-bearing weathering product (~65% of total opaques) make up approximately 15% of the thin section.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa19.4±1.4, N = 33), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs16.7±0.8Wo1.4±0.32, N = 18), high-Ca pyroxene (Fs6.7±1.4Wo 46.8±2.0, N = 12).

Specimens: Cascadia holds 96.3 g in several pieces, a polished thin section, and a mounted butt. John Shea holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB105
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Date:P 20 May 2013
Mass (g):512
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):19.4±1.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.7±0.8
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.32
Classifier:M. Ream, A. Ruzicka, M. Hutson, Cascadia
Type spec mass (g):96.3
Type spec location:Cascadia
Main mass:John A. Shea, 201 East Rose Valley Rd., Wallingford, PA, 19086
Comments:Lab number CML0756; submitted by A. Ruzicka
Institutions
   and collections		 Cascadia: Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Room 17 Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Oct 2011)
GHupé: Gregory M. Hupé, 9003 Placid Lakes Blvd., Lake Placid, FL 33852, United States; Website (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:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2163 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 32 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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