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Northwest Africa 11359
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11359
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11359
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 135 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106  (2018)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12727 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 1 Jul 2017
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Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11359 (NWA 11359)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2016

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

History: The stone was purchased by Mohamed salem El Wali El alaoui.

Physical characteristics: The stone is unusually porous. It contains 5-10 vol.% pores with diameters ranging from 50 - 250 µm.

Petrography: The stone is very recrystallized and has poorly defined chondrules. plagioclase grains range up to 50 × 120 µm. Diopside is more abundant than low-Ca pyroxene. Diopside compositions average Fs7.3±0.4Wo45.0±0.5 (n=15). Plagioclase compositions average Ab82.9±1.0Or5.7±0.9 (n=10). The rock appears to have relict shock features including small, irregular troilite grains within metallic Fe-Ni, chromite-plagioclase assemblages and thin veinlets of chromite. Olivine grains exhibit undulose extinction.

Data from:
  MB106
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Mauritania
Date:P 2016
Mass (g):135
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):23.2±0.2 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.9±0.2 (n=3)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.5±0.2 (n=3)
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):21
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:with owner: Mohamed salem El Wali El alaoui
Comments:Submitted by Alan Rubin
Institutions
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UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
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: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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