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Northwest Africa 13144

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 13144
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13144
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 137 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 109	(2021)	L5-melt breccia
Recommended:			L5-melt breccia [explanation]

This is 1 of 44 approved meteorites classified as L5-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 31 Jan 2020

Data from:
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Place of purchase:	Rissani, Morocco
Date:	P 2016 Jan
Mass (g):	137
Pieces:	1
Class:	L5-melt breccia
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	25.0±0.2 (n=3)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	21.8±0.9 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.2±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:	4.84
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	21
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	Kuntz
Comments:	work name K429; Melt rock supported breccia. Chondritic clasts have small plagioclase (about 5 um) in the matrix. Opaque are metal and sulfides.; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca

Institutions
and collections

CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Bullock E., Chennaoui Aoudjehane H., Debaille V., D’Orazio M., Komatsu M., Miao B. and Schrader D. L. (2021) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56, 1626–1630.

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Ryan Upchurch

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9921 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1838 unapproved names)

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