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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15141 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15141 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 163 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 487 approved meteorites classified as LL3. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 23 Jul 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 15141 (NWA 15141) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in April, 2022. Physical characteristics: Two brownish fragments without fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, partly flattened, and packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a more fine-grained dark brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB111 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. 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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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