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Northwest Africa 11124 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 11124 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 11124 Observed fall: No Year found: 2005 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 1487 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 848 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 17 Feb 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 11124 (NWA 11124) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2005 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3) History: Purchased by an anonymous collector from a dealer at the Munich Show in 2005 and subsequently acquired by the Hollis Collection. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fairly closely-packed, well-formed chondrules (apparent diameter 450±300 µm) are set in somewhat recrystallized matrix containing variably altered metal, chlorapatite and minor merrillite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa5.3-44.2, Cr2O3 in ferroan examples <0.04 wt.%, N = 7), orthopyroxene (Fs7.1-25.0Wo0.2-1.6, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs6.9-8.0Wo44.1-45.4, N = 2). Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.91. Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3). Specimens: 727 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder in the Hollis Collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) |
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References: | Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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