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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10125 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10125 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 602 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 14 Mar 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 10125 (NWA 10125) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2014 Jul Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by Darryl Pitt in July 2014 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Granular mm-sized chondrules plus iregularly shaped, fine-grained CAI (up to 2.5 mm across, some hibonite-bearing) are set in a fairly fresh, finer grained matrix (clove brown in thin section). Some chondrules contain stained metal and others have concentric dust rims. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.9-42.9, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs1.7-5.1Wo0.8-2.0, N = 2), clinopyroxene (Fs1.6-7.8Wo43.1-40.0, N = 2). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 20.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB. The remainder is held by DPitt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012) DPitt: Darryl Pitt, 225 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024, United States; Website (private address) |
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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 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |