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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 12298 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 12298 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  87.6 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2930 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as LL6. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 9 Nov 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 107:
Northwest Africa 12298 (NWA 12298) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL6) History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Wang Ziyao from Sbai Mohamed at the mineral show in Beijing in Nov. 2015 Physical characteristics: (Wang Ziyao) 87.6 g Partly with fresh black fusion crust coverd gray-blue elongated stone. Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) brecciated texture of light gray recrystallized matrix with poor developed chondrules up to 1.2 mm, mineral fragments, tiny sulphide grains that somtimes build larger assemblages, and few metal specks up to 0.5 mm. Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 3.49 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6, W0) Specimens: 18.2 g on deposit at Kiel, Wang Ziyao holds the main mass, and 19 g with Bart. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB107 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013) Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019) Beijing: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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