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Northwest Africa 13502

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 13502
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13502
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 388 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 109	(2021)	H6
Recommended:			H6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 7010 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 2 Nov 2020

Writeup

Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13502 (NWA 13502)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6)

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Highly recrystallized ordinary chondrite. Plagioclase up to 150 μm. Chromite to 100 µm.

Geochemistry: Plagioclase An_12.7Ab_79.9Or_7.5(n=1). Chromite Cr# 0.86.

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Kuntz.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:	Zagora, Morocco
Date:	P 2019 Oct
Mass (g):	387.9
Pieces:	1
Class:	H6
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	19.6 (n=2)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	17.3 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.3
Magnetic suscept.:	5.37
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	20.7
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	Kuntz
Comments:	work name K466; 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 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names)

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