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Northwest Africa 15692

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 15692
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15692
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: Mali
Mass: 49 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 112	(2023)	H~5
Recommended:			H~5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 192 approved meteorites classified as H~5. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 23 Feb 2023

Writeup

Writeup from MB 112:

Northwest Africa 15692 (NWA 15692)

Tombouctou, Mali

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Wei Jiang from Aziz Habibi in Erfoud, Morocco 2022.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) yellow and brownish colored porous oval stone of 49kg

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Heavily altered porous chondritic clasts with gray chondrules (0.3-1.5 mm) set in a brown weathered matrix with few relict metal and sulfide grains.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) LogX = 4.77

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5, W5)

Specimens: 37.1 g on deposit at Kiel, Wei Jiang holds the main mass, and 219 g with Bart

Data from:
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State/Prov/County:	Tombouctou
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Place of purchase:	Erfoud, Morocco
Date:	P 2022
Mass (g):	49000
Pieces:	1
Class:	H~5
Weathering grade:	W5
Magnetic suscept.:	4.77
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	37.1
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Wei Jiang
Finder:	anonymous
Comments:	working name WZ195. May be paired with NWA13888; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz

Institutions
and collections

Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)

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Photos:

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Chunliang Zhang
Ziyao Wang

Geography:

Mali

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites from Tombouctou, Mali
This is 1 of 117 approved meteorites from Mali (plus 2 unapproved names)

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