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Northwest Africa 12527
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12527
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12527
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 18.2 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Acapulcoite
Recommended:  Acapulcoite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 92 approved meteorites classified as Acapulcoite.   [show all]
Search for other: Acapulcoite-lodranite family, Acapulcoites, and Primitive achondrites
Comments: Approved 14 Sep 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12527 (NWA 12527)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2017

Classification: Primitive achondrite (Acapulcoite)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Ziyao Wang from Hamza Lharbi in Guelmim in 2017.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) one dark-brown stone of 18.2 g with smooth appearance, without fusion crust.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Strongly recrystallized texture with olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, and interstitial metal and sulfide.

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Olivine Fa7.7±0.2, FeO/MnO=16 (n=6); pyroxene Fs8.3±0.2Wo1.7±0.3, FeO/MnO=12 (n=9); Ca-pyroxene En51Fs4Wo45 (n=2); feldspar An15Or4 (n=2); chromite CRAL53, FFM68 (n=1). Kamacite Ni=7.7, Co=0.7 (n=3) (all wt-%); plessite, troilite. Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.75

Classification: Primitive achondrite (acapulcoite)

Specimens: 3.7 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 2.7 g with Bart.

Data from:
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Origin or pseudonym:desert
Place of purchase:Guelmim,Morocco
Date:P 2017
Mass (g):18.2
Pieces:1
Class:Acapulcoite
Fayalite (mol%):7.7±0.2 (n=6)
Ferrosilite (mol%):8.3±0.2 (n=9)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7±0.3
Magnetic suscept.:4.75
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):3.7
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Wang Ziyao
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZ106; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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