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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13933 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13933 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 29 approved meteorites classified as CVox3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 5 Jun 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 110:
Northwest Africa 13933 (NWA 13933) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: March, 2021 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Morocco. Physical characteristics: Dark-grayish rock without fusion crust. Petrography: Carbonaceous chondrite composed of chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm; up to 2 mm sized), CAIs (up to 4 mm sized), and olivine amoeboids all set into a fine-grained fresh appearing dark grayish matrix. Contains type I and type II chondrules. Opaque phases are abundant Ni-rich sulfides and very rare metal and troilite. Geochemistry: Ni in sulfides 19.4±0.2 wt%, N=7 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3). Oxidized subgroup based on high concentrations of Ni in sulfide (Gattacceca et al., 2020). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Data from: MB110 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |