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Northwest Africa 10129 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10129 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10129 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 1696 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 470 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 10129 (NWA 10129) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Jan Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by Darryl Pitt in January 2015 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Granular chondrules (average size about 800 μm, up to 2.8 mm in diameter) plus CAI (up to 2.9 mm across) are set in a fairly fresh, black matrix (~50 vol.%). The grainsizes of the CAI range from fine to coarse, and some contain grossmanite and zirconolite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.7-48.9, N = 5), orthopyroxene (Fs0.7-1.8Wo0.9-0.8, N =2), subcalcic augite (Fs1.3Wo30.9; Fs1.1Wo39.0). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 21.9 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, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) 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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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