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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:
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 462 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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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