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Northwest Africa 15106
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15106
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15106
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 310 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  CV3
MB 113  (2024)  CVox3
Recommended:  CVox3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 51 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 19 Aug 2022
Revised 27 Mar 2024: Revised class based on metbull text
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15106 (NWA 15106)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

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

Physical characteristics: Grayish fragment with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite displays a grayish to slightly greenish interior and is a carbonaceous chondrite composed of large chondrules (up to 3 mm sized), whitish CAIs (up to 4 mm sized), and olivine amoeboids all set into a fine-grained grayish matrix. Opaque phases are Ni-rich sulfides, trolite, and rare metal.

Geochemistry: Ni in sulfides 17.2±1.8 wt%, N=7

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3). Oxidized subgroup based on high concentrations of Ni in sulfide (Gattacceca et al., 2020).

Bibliography:
  • Gattacceca J.,Bonal L.,Sonzognia C., and Longereya J. (2020) CV chondrites: More than one parent body. Earth Planet. Sci. Letts. 547, 116467. (link)
Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Algeria
Date:P 2022
Mass (g):310
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:moderate
Fayalite (mol%):12.9±14.8 (0.4-43.2, n=23)
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.2±0.5 (0.8-2.9, n=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.4 (0.9-2.4, n=12)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Mateusz Szyszka
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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