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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13050 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13050 Observed fall: No Year found: 2019 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  92.5 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 79 approved meteorites classified as L6-melt breccia. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 17 Oct 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 110:
Northwest Africa 13050 (NWA 13050) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2019 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6, melt breccia) History: In May 2019 at the mineral show in Chenzhou Ziyao Wang discovered on the bottom of a box with ordinary chondrites from Northwest Africa some small strange stones and donated some material to Rainer Bartoschewitz. Some of these stones are of meteoritic and others of terrestrial origin. Physical characteristics: 92.3 g dark gray-brown irregular angular stone with many cracks Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) subrounded chondritic clasts and mineral fragments with very thin metallic rims set in a black matrix with finely dispersed metal grains <5 µm. Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Olivine Fa24.2±0.2 (n=12); feldspar An11-17Or5-3 (n=2); chromite CRAL=86 FFM=81-83 (n=2). Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.62 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6 melt breccia) Specimens: 16.4 g on deposit in Kiel, 64 g and polished thin section with Bart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB110 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| 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) |
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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