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Northwest Africa 13383 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13383 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13383 Observed fall: No Year found: 2019 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 866 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 660 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 10 Oct 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 109:
Northwest Africa 13383 (NWA 13383) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2019 Feb Classification: Ureilite History: Purchased by Blaine Reed in February 2019 from a Moroccan dealer at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and J. Boesenberg, BrownU) Protogranular texture of non-equant olivine and pigeonite grains showing preferred dimensional orientation. Olivine has reduced, more magnesian rims associated with very fine grained Fe metal. No carbon phases were observed in the studied thin section. Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa20.3-24.5, N = 13; rims Fa9.6-18.8, N = 6; Cr2O3 in all olivine = 0.6-0.8 wt.%), pigeonite (Fs11.8-19.5Wo10.2-12.4, N = 9; Fs10.9Wo15.2; Fs13.5Wo6.4). Classification: Ureilite. Specimens: 20.7 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with Mr. B. Reed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB109 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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) Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address) UWA: University of Western Australia, 35 Hackett Drive, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (institutional address; updated 29 May 2012) 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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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