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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15483 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15483 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 72.9 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (bas. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 11 Dec 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 15483 (NWA 15483) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Oct Classification: Lunar meteorite (basaltic breccia) History: Purchased by Ziyao Wang in October 2022 from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Complex breccia composed of sparse lithic basalt clasts plus diverse mineral clasts of olivine, exsolved pigeonite, low-Ca pyroxene, unexsolved pigeonite (zoned to ferropigeonite), subcalcic augite, augite, fayalite, calcic plagioclase, anorthite and rare andesine in a fine grained matrix containing kamacite, ilmenite, troilite, merrillite, silica polymorph (as rounded and elongate blebs), zircon and baddeleyite. Lithic clasts have intergranular textures and consist predominantly of zoned clinopyroxene and anorthite with relatively low but varying amounts of accessory troilite and oxide phases. Elongate sinuous portions of the matrix are glassy and vesicular, and exhibit flow banding with enclosed relict mineral grains. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa23.1-39.7, FeO/MnO = 83-101; Fa62.0, FeO/MnO = 110; N = 7), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs25.8Wo4.7, FeO/MnO = 60), pigeonite (Fs23.9-24.0Wo11.7-15.7, FeO/MnO = 46-55, N = 2), ferropigeonite (Fs57.6-60.0Wo17.9-16.1, FeO/MnO = 58-72, N = 2), subcalcic augite (Fs28.1-38.0Wo30.4-27.5, FeO/MnO = 55-58, N = 2), augite (Fs34.8Wo39.8, FeO/MnO = 68), low-Ca pyroxene hosts (Fs50.4-62.8Wo3.2-6.1, FeO/MnO = 68-72, N = 3), subcalcic augite exsolution lamellae (Fs28.9-38.0Wo36.7-28.8, FeO/MnO = 68-76, N = 2), augite exsolution lamella (Fs35.7Wo40.6, FeO/MnO = 81), fayalite (Fa87.5-92.7, FeO/MnO = 82-95, N = 2), calcic plagioclase (An88.8Or0.3), anorthite (An95.3-97.7Or0.1, N = 5), andesine (An42.7Or2.2). Classification: Lunar basaltic breccia (regolithic). Specimens: 15 g including a polished slice and a polished mount at UWB; remainder with WangZ. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) WangZ: Ziyao Wang, Hebei GEO University North Campus, Huai An dong road 127, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province , China (private address; updated 25 Jun 2021) |
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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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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