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Northwest Africa 15134 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15134 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15134 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 35 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 81 approved meteorites classified as Pallasite. [show all] Search for other: Metal-rich meteorites, Pallasites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 4 Dec 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 15134 (NWA 15134) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2021 Mar Classification: Pallasite History: Purchased by Shun-Chung Yang in March 2021 from a dealer in Tindouf, Algeria. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Composed of subequal proportions of olivine and stained metal (both kamacite and taenite). Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa11.8-11.9, N = 4), kamacite (Ni 7.2 wt.%), taenite (Ni 37.7 wt.%). Classification: Pallasite. Specimens: 7.2 g including a polished mount at UWB; remainder with Mr. S.-C. Yang. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB111 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) |
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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 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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