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Northwest Africa 13710
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13710
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13710
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 398 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  Diogenite
Recommended:  Diogenite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 545 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 20 Mar 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 13710 (NWA 13710)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: August 2020

Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite)

Physical characteristics: A single partially crusted stone. Cut face reveals a light grey interior with mm sized dark clasts.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Igneous fractured granular rock. Ultradominant mineral is unzoned low-Ca pyroxene. Other minerals: troilite (5 µm), rare metal (5-10 µm), chromite (to 50 µm).

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene Fs29.4±0.6Wo3.1±0.4, FeO/MnO = 29.0±2.5 (n=5). Chromite Cr#=0.80 (n=2).

Classification: achondrite (diogenite)

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

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Zagora, Morocco
Date:P Aug 2020
Mass (g):398.2
Pieces:1
Class:Diogenite
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):29.4±0.6 (n=6)
Wollastonite (mol%):3.1±0.4
Magnetic suscept.:2.79
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):27.32
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Kuntz
Finder:anonymous
Comments:work name K504; 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., 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
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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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