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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15195 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15195 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 5.52 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 19 Aug 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 15195 (NWA 15195) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: September, 2021 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Temara, Morocco. Physical characteristics: Light grayish fragment without fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly rounded packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a fine-grained light brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal. Geochemistry: Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.04±0.03 wt%, range Cr2O3=0.00-0.17 wt%, n=55. Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3). Estimated subtype LL3.6. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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