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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15482 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15482 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 80.6 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (troct. anorth.). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 23 Feb 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15482 (NWA 15482) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Sep Classification: Lunar meteorite (troctolitic anorthosite) History: Purchased by Ziyao Wang in September 2022 from a dealer in Tan-Tan, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of lithic clasts and related crystalline debris dominated by anorthite and olivine with subordinate pigeonite and accessory low-Ti chromite, pentlandite and pervasive secondary barite granules. Geochemistry: Anorthite (An94.4-97.5Or0.2-0.0, N = 4), olivine (Fa19.0-45.6, FeO/MnO = 80-97, N = 5), pigeonite (Fs23.2-26.3Wo7.4-10.6, FeO/MnO = 42-50, N = 4). Classification: Lunar (troctolitic anorthositic breccia). Specimens: 16.9 g including one polished endcut at UWB; remainder with WangZ. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB112 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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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