Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 13793

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Northwest Africa 13793

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 13793
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13793
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: Morocco
Mass: 604 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 110	(2022)	LL~6
Recommended:			LL~6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites classified as LL~6. [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 20 Mar 2021

Writeup

Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 13793 (NWA 13793) ~31°05’N, ~3°57’W

Centre-South, Morocco

Find: 2010

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6)

History: Discovered by Ait Kabboura Imad close to Merdane in 2010

Physical characteristics: One 604 g brown stone with fusion crust and brown-yellow interior cut face.

Petrography: Indistinct chondrules up to 5 mm set in a stron recrystallized matrix with sulfide and few metal

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.37

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6, W3)

Specimens: 20.4 g on deposit at Kiel, Ait Kabboura Imad (Liege/B) holds the main mass, and 41 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Centre-South
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Date:	2010
Latitude:	~31°05'N
Longitude:	~3°57'W
Mass (g):	604
Pieces:	1
Class:	LL~6
Weathering grade:	W3
Magnetic suscept.:	4.37
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	25.4
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Ait Kabboura Imad, Liege/B
Finder:	Ait Kabboura Imad
Comments:	working name AKI002; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz

Institutions
and collections

Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Geography:

Morocco

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(31° 5'N, 3° 57'W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 46 approved meteorites from Centre-South, Morocco (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater)
This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

Proximity search:

Also see:

This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Revision
history:

This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page