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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 12598 This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite. Abbreviation: NWA 12598 Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  333 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Entered 3 May 2019 Revised 11 Jun 2019: Same as NWA 11568 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 108:
Northwest Africa 12598 (NWA 12598) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: March 2017 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3) History: Purchased by Sean Tutorow and Brahim Tahiri from several diferent meteorite hunters in Morocco. Petrography: The rock contains sharply defined chondrules and polysynthetically twinned low-Ca pyroxene. The chondrule mesostases are not composed of isotropic glass; they are devitrified. The types of chondrules include BO, PO, PP, POP, RP and C. Some chondrules have dusty relict olivine grains within them. The rock has experienced extensive weathering; some clay is present that formed from altered mafic silicate grains. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB108 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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