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Northwest Africa 10663 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10663 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10663 Observed fall: No Year found: 2016 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 45.7 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 660 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 Mar 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 10663 (NWA 10663) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2016 Mar Classification: Ureilite History: Purchased in Temara, Morocco by Adam Aaronson in March 2016. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Protogranular aggregate of olivine and twinned pigeonite. Olivine has reduced magnesian rims associated with blebby Fe metal. Minor secondary calcite is present. Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa19.2-19.3; rims Fa10.9-15.1, N = 4), pigeonite (Fs16.0-16.4Wo6.4-6.8, N = 3). Classification: Ureilite. Specimens: 9.6 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Aaronson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 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) Aaronson: Sahara Overland Ltd., Harhora, Temara, 12000, Morocco (private address; updated 3 Jan 2010) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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