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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15594 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15594 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  117 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
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 7 Jan 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15594 (NWA 15594) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: October, 2022 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer Agadir, Morocco. Physical characteristics: Many dark brownish fragments partly covered with fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly rounded, and partly packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.8 mm) in a more fine-grained brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal mostly altered to iron oxides and hydroxides. Geochemistry: Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.10±0.05 wt%, range Cr2O3=0.02-0.19 wt%, n=42. Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3). Estimated subtype LL3.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB112 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||