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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 12599 This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite. Abbreviation: NWA 12599 Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  496 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Entered 3 May 2019 Revised 11 Jun 2019: Same meteorite as NWA 11569 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 108:
Northwest Africa 12599 (NWA 12599) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: March 2017 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL6) History: Purchased by Sean Tutorow and Brahim Tahiri from several diferent meteorite hunters in Morocco. Petrography: Ca-pyroxene is also present: Fs10.6±0.5Wo42.3±0.3 (n=5). The rock is very recrystallized. Plagioclase grains range from 70 to 110 µm in size. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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