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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13192 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13192 Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: Morocco Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8604 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 12 Feb 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 109:
Northwest Africa 13192 (NWA 13192) Kem Kem, Morocco Find: August 1999 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5) History: Iffat Jabeen is the owner of this meteorite, who bought it from Michael I. Casper, Meteorites, Inc. in March 2000. Physical characteristics: A 59 g fragment. It has a smooth, thin, dark-brown fusion crust present on two faces and other four uneven faces are also slightly fused. There are no contraction cracks present on this chondrite. The sample is attracted by a magnet. Petrography (S. Nasir, SQU): Porphyritic olivine pyroxene (POP) and radial pyroxene (RP) chondrules are readily defined. Heavy oxidization is observed throughout the thin section. Geochemistry: (N. K. Kim, C. Park and J. I. Lee, KOPRI) Duplicate oxygen isotope analysis of untreated bulk materials (grains) by laser-assisted fluorination provided, respectively, δ17O 3.861, 3.905; δ18O 5.178, 5.279; Δ17O 1.127, 1.118 per mil. Classification: Classsificaiton: Ordinary chondrite (L5), W3. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB109 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Plots: | O isotopes: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Institutions and collections |
SQU: Sultan Qaboos University, College of Science, Earth Sciences Department, P.O. Box 36 Code 123 AlKhoud, Oman (institutional address; updated 5 Oct 2014) Casper: Michael I. Casper, Meteorites, Inc., P.O. Drawer J, Ithaca, NY 14851, United States; Website (private address) KOPRI: Korea Polar Research Institute, 26 Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea, 406-840, South Korea; Website (institutional address; updated 20 Dec 2014) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Kem Kem, Morocco This is 1 of 1973 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 37 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) |