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Northwest Africa 13013
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13013
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13013
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 31.8 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 487 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 15 Dec 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 13013 (NWA 13013)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Dark brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, partly flattened and loosely packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a more fine-grained brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):31.8
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):15.2±9.6 (5.2-32.3, n=19)
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.5±7.0 (2.0-19.1, n=14)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7±1.2 (0.3-4.6, n=14)
Magnetic suscept.:4.07
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):7.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Hanno Strufe
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
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 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
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