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Northwest Africa 13899

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 13899
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13899
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 5.5 g

Classification
history:

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Lunar (frag. breccia) [explanation]

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Comments:

Approved 11 Nov 2021

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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 13899 (NWA 13899)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Lunar meteorite (frag. breccia)

History: In 2019 at the mineral show in Beijing Ziyao Wang discovered on the bottom of a box with ordinary chondrites from northwest Africa some small strange stones. This one he donated to Rainer Bartoschewitz.

Physical characteristics: 5.5 g gray grooved irregular fragment with orange soil adhersions. Gray cut face with white inclusions and few metallic specks.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Polymict fragmental breccia of dominately mafic lithic clasts (gabbro, dunite) with accessoric chromite, silica, kamacite and taenite, minor anorthosite clasts (frequently transformed to maskelynite), and mineral fragments.

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Olivine Fa_20.4-41.9(Fe/Mn 65-118; n=4); fayalite Fa_85.0(n=1); augite En_28-50Fs_55-14Wo_18-35(Fe/Mn 47-74; n=4); anorthite An_94.2-97.4Or<0.5 (n=7); chromite CRAL=62, FFM=68 (n=1). Ilmenite MgO=4.5 wt% (n=1); kamacite Ni=2.9-6.7, Co=1.5-0.5wt% (n=5). Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.10

Classification: lunar meteorite (fragmental breccia)

Specimens: 1.24 g on deposit at IfP, main mass with Bart. Polished thin sections with Bart + IfP

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Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Place of purchase:	Beijing, China
Date:	P 2019
Mass (g):	5.5
Pieces:	1
Class:	Lunar (frag. breccia)
Shock stage:	high
Fayalite (mol%):	38.3 (20.4-85.0; n=7)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	37.9 (14.6-54.8; n=4)
Wollastonite (mol%):	17.4-35.2
Magnetic suscept.:	4.1
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	1.24
Type spec location:	IfP
Main mass:	Rainer Bartoschewitz
Finder:	anonymous
Comments:	working name WZD#27; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz

Institutions
and collections

IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
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)
Beijing: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011)

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References:

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

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Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 8495 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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