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Northwest Africa 12598
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:help 333 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  H3
Recommended:  H3    [explanation]

Comments: Entered 3 May 2019
Revised 11 Jun 2019: Same as NWA 11568
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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.

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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P March 2017
Mass (g):332.77
Pieces:4
Class:H3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W5
Fayalite (mol%):17.6±0.3 (n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.6±0.3 (n=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±1.1 (n=12)
Classifier:Alan Rubin
Type spec mass (g):23.84
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Sean Tutorow
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Coordinates:Unknown.
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