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Northwest Africa 13536
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13536
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13536
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 280 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2020)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6484 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 12 Nov 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13536 (NWA 13536)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a local dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Dark brownish fragment without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite displays a chondritic texture with small, mostly rounded, separated chondrules (mean diameter about 0.3 mm) in a more fine-grained dark matrix that contains sulfides and abundant FeNi metal. Olivine is equilibrated; low-Ca-pyroxene is unequilibrated.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
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Date:P 2019
Mass (g):280
Pieces:1
Class:H4
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):17,6±0.1 (n=10)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.3±3.6 (5.7-19.4, n=10)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±0.5 (0.3-1.8, n=10)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):29.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Tomasz Jakubowski
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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