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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15363 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15363 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 2.06 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 74 approved meteorites classified as R3. [show all] Search for other: Rumuruti chondrites, Rumuruti chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 4 Dec 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 15363 (NWA 15363) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Apr Classification: Rumuruti chondrite (R3) History: Purchased by Ziyao Wang in January 2019 from a dealer in Guelmim, Morocco, and sold to Fujun Ren in April 2022. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Well-formed chondrules (apparent diameter 620±250 µm, N = 25) and rare very fine grained CAI are set in a fresh matrix (~40 vol.%, opaque in thin section) containing pyrrhotite, pentlandite and medium-Ti chromite. Metal is absent. A lithic clast (3.5 mm across) with triple grain junction texture is present in the studied thin section. A ~1 μm spherule of elemental bismuth was found in one pyrrhotite grain. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa26.2±15.6, range Fa0.2-41.0, N = 10), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs14.1±5.8Wo0.9±0.4, range Fs8.3-19.5Wo0.4-1.4, N = 4), subcalcic augite (Fs15.8Wo25.4; Fs12.5Wo33.1; N = 2), augite (Fs17.1Wo40.6). Classification: R3 chondrite. Specimens: 25.3 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Fujun Ren. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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