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Northwest Africa 13028
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13028
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13028
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 849 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 612 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 1 Jan 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13028 (NWA 13028)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

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

Physical characteristics: Dark greyish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: Carbonaceous chondrite composed of chondrules (mean diameter about 1 mm; up to 3 mm sized), CAIs (up to 2 mm sized), and olivine amoeboids all set into a fine-grained brownish matrix. Contains both, type I and type II chondrules.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):849
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:moderate
Fayalite (mol%):8.7±7.6 (1.2-23.9, n=18)
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.8±1.0 (0.8-3.1, n=18)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.6±1.3 (0.5-3.9, n=18)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):21.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Said Yousfi
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. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Said Yousfi   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9116 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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