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Northwest Africa 15048
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15048
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15048
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 199 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2060 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 20 Jun 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15048 (NWA 15048)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L4)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Brownish fragment with minor fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly flattened and packed chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.5 mm) set in a light brownish matrix with mostly altered metal and sulfides. Olivine is equilibrated; low-Ca-pyroxene is unequilibrated.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2022
Mass (g):199
Pieces:1
Class:L4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):22.9±0.2 (n=10)
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.9±3.2 (11.2-21.3, n=15)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8±0.7 (0.3-2.8, n=15)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23.2
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Boulaouane Taleb Ahmed
Finder:Morocco
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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