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Northwest Africa 13161
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13161
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13161
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 318 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2021)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 862 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 31 Jan 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13161 (NWA 13161)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a Morrocan dealer at the mineral show in Munich, Germany.

Physical characteristics: Dark-grayish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite displays a grayish interior and shows a chondritic texture composed of slightly flattened chondrules (mean diameter about 700 μm) that are only loosely packed. The matrix contains sulfides and FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Munich, Germany
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):317.6
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):15.8±10.5 (0.9-29.9, n=24)
Ferrosilite (mol%):11.0±7.9 (2.4-30.0, n=30)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.6±0.6 (0.2-3.6, n=30)
Magnetic suscept.:4.69
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):36.1
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Fabien Kuntz
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
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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