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Northwest Africa 15292
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15292
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15292
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 55 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

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 1 Oct 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15292 (NWA 15292)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

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

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly rounded and well packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a fine-grained brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare, often altered FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2022
Mass (g):55
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):16.2±10.4 (1.0-42.7, n=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.5±7.7 (1.6-33.2, n=22)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±0.8 (0.1-3.0, n=22)
Magnetic suscept.:3.57
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):11
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Mateusz Szyszko
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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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