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Northwest Africa 13228
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13228
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13228
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 142 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2020)  H3
Recommended:  H3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 708 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 23 Feb 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13228 (NWA 13228)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3)

History: Purchased by Grant Harkness in October 2019 from a dealer in Zagora, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and J. Boesenberg, BrownU) Relatively small, unequilibrated glass-bearing chondrules (apparent diameter 430 ± 290 µm, N = 22) are set in a finer grained matrix containing abundant fresh metal, troilite, chromite, Cl-free apatite and chlorapatite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa19.4±3.2, range Fa17.3-34.7, N = 9; Cr2O3 in ferroan examples <0.08 wt.%, N = 6), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs15.5±0.3Wo0.8±0.5, range Fs15.2-15.8Wo0.3-1.6, N = 6).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3). Likely paired with "HC7" and "HC8".

Specimens: 21.5 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder in the Harkness Collection.

Data from:
  MB109
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Place of purchase:Zagora
Date:P 2019 Oct
Mass (g):142
Pieces:1
Class:H3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W0/1
Fayalite (mol%):19.4±3.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.5±0.3
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8±0.5
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):21.5
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:Harkness Collection
Comments:Work name HC11; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
BrownU: Joseph Boesenberg Brown University Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) 324 Brook Street Providence, RI 02912 , United States (institutional address; updated 4 Jan 2024)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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