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Awsserd 002

Basic information

Name: Awsserd 002
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Western Sahara
Mass: 427 g

Classification
history:

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Pallasite [explanation]

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Comments:

Approved 21 Feb 2021

Writeup

Writeup from MB 110:

Awsserd 002 22.607°N, 14.508°W

Western Sahara

Find: 2019

Classification: Pallasite

History: Purportedly found in 2019 about 20 kilometers west of Aousserd, southern Morocco at 22.607°N, 14.508°W, and purchased in September 2020 from the finder by Juan Avilés Poblador on behalf of UAlic.

Physical characteristics: A single specimen (427 g) with a rusty brown, jagged exterior but fresh interior dominated by metal and yellow-brown olivine.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Composed predominantly of subequal amounts of olivine (grainsize up to 1.2 cm) and fresh metal (kamacite plus taenite) with minor accessory chromite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_13.2-13.4, FeO/MnO = 37-40, N = 4), kamacite (Ni = 6.8 wt.%), taenite (Ni = 15.0 wt.%, 38.6 wt.%, N = 2).

Classification: Pallasite.

Specimens: 30 g in the form of a polished slice at UWB; remainder in the collection of UAlic.

Data from:
  MB110
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Place of purchase:	Morocco
Date:	2019
Latitude:	22.607°N
Longitude:	14.508°W
Mass (g):	427
Pieces:	1
Class:	Pallasite
Shock stage:	low
Fayalite (mol%):	13.2-13.4
Classifier:	A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):	30.0
Type spec location:	UWB
Main mass:	University of Alicante
Comments:	Work name JAP20-1; submitted by A. Irving

Institutions
and collections

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)
UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
UAlic: Earth Sciences Department University of Alicante San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain (institutional address; updated 9 Feb 2020)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)

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Geography:

Western Sahara

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(22° 36' 25"N, 14° 30' 29"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 259 approved meteorites from Western Sahara (plus 20 unapproved names)

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