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Northwest Africa 13151
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13151
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13151
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 200 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2021)  LL7
Recommended:  LL7    [explanation]

This is 1 of 102 approved meteorites classified as LL7.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 31 Jan 2020
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Northwest Africa 13151 (NWA 13151)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019 Sep

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL7)

Physical characteristics: Single stone. Approximately 75% covered by thick fusion crust

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Strongly recrystallized chondrite. Opaque minerals are metal and troilite. No visible chondrule in the studied section. Plagioclase to 200 μm.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa30.6 (n=1). Orthopyroxene Fs25.7Wo2.5 (n=2)

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE, main mass with Kuntz

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Guelmin, Morocco
Date:P 2019 Sep
Mass (g):200
Pieces:1
Class:LL7
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):30.6 (n=1)
Ferrosilite (mol%):25.7 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):2.5
Magnetic suscept.:4.25
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):21.60
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Kuntz
Comments:work name K448; 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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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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

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