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Northwest Africa 13046
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13046
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13046
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 22 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  EL4
Recommended:  EL4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites classified as EL4.   [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Comments: Approved 21 Jan 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 13046 (NWA 13046)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Enstatite chondrite (EL4)

History: In May 2019, at the mineral show in Chenzhou, Ziyao Wang discovered some small strange stones in the bottom of a box with ordinary chondrites from Northwest Africa, and donated some material to Rainer Bartoschewitz. Some of these stones are of meteoritic and others of terrestrial origin.

Physical characteristics: 22 g dark brown irregular stone with yellow-beige caliche

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) well developed chondrules (0.1-0.9 mm, av. 0.3 mm) set in a brown stained matrix. Olivine mostly absent. Cracks are filled with Fe-oxihydrate and calcite.

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Enstatite Fs0.7Wo0.5 (Fs0.0-2.2Wo0.3-0.8); n=16); feldspar An11Or3 (n=1). Troilite Ti=0.4, Cr=0.5 (n=3); daubreelite Mn=1.5 (n=8) wt%. Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.86

Classification: Enstatite chondrite (ELa4). Classified as EL due to Mn > 1.4% in daubréelite and missing niningerite; subgroup a due to low Cr in troilite and abundant daubréelite.

Specimens: 4.7 g on deposit in Kiel, 13 g and polished thin section with Bart.


Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 13046 (NWA 13046)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Enstatite chondrite (EL4)

History: In May 2019, at the mineral show in Chenzhou, Ziyao Wang discovered some small strange stones in the bottom of a box with ordinary chondrites from Northwest Africa, and donated some material to Rainer Bartoschewitz. Some of these stones are of meteoritic and others of terrestrial origin.

Physical characteristics: 22 g dark brown irregular stone with yellow-beige caliche

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) well developed chondrules (0.1-0.9 mm, av. 0.3 mm) set in a brown stained matrix. Olivine mostly absent. Cracks are filled with Fe-oxihydrate and calcite.

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Enstatite Fs0.7Wo0.5 (Fs0.0-2.2Wo0.3-0.8); n=16); feldspar An11Or3 (n=1). Troilite Ti=0.4, Cr=0.5 (n=3); daubreelite Mn=1.5 (n=8) wt%. Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.86

Classification: Enstatite chondrite (ELa4). Classified as EL due to Mn > 1.4% in daubréelite and missing niningerite; subgroup a due to low Cr in troilite and abundant daubréelite.

Specimens: 4.7 g on deposit in Kiel, 13 g and polished thin section with Bart.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Place of purchase:Beijing, China
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):22
Pieces:1
Class:EL4
Weathering grade:high
Ferrosilite (mol%):0.7 (0.0-2.2; n=16)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.5±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.86
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):4.7
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:R. Bartoschewitz
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZD#G01; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz
Institutions
   and collections
Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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