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Northwest Africa 15273
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15273
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15273
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 128.4 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 836 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 14 Sep 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15273 (NWA 15273)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased by Mr. Salamu Ali from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania and subsequently donated to the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (MNB).

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock partly covered with fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, partly flattened, and well packed chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.7 mm). The fine-grained matrix contains only weakly altered sulfides and FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Date:P 2022
Mass (g):128.4
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):16.6±10.4 (5.4-35.8, n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):13.0±7.0 (2.2-25.2, n=17)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8±1.2 (0.3-4.7, n=17)
Magnetic suscept.:4.70
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):128.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:MNB
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.

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     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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