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Northwest Africa 15633
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15633
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15633
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 58.3 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Ureilite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 625 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites
Comments: Approved 4 Mar 2023
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Writeup from MB 112:

Northwest Africa 15633 (NWA 15633)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ureilite

History: Purchased by Shun-Chung Yang in 2019 from a dealer in Madrid, who had obtained the material from a Moroccan source.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and J. Boesenberg, BrownU) Protogranular aggregate (mean grainsize ~2 mm) of predominantly olivine and pigeonite with triple grain junctions. Accessory phases include daubreelite, troilite, kamacite, and some secondary calcite along grain boundaries. Olivine grains have dark, reduced more magnesian rims containing fine blebby Fe metal. - oli, opx, silica inclusions, blebs of FeNi metal and troilite, Fe blebs, daubreelite, pigeonite, troilite, rust, 50-100 micron thick veins of calcite

Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa16.0-23.0, CaO = 0.38-0.45 wt.%, Cr2O3 = 0.68-0.83 wt.%, N = 5; rims Fa4.4-12.7, N = 5), pigeonite (Fs11.4-18.6Wo9.7-11.2, Al2O3 = 0.15-0.54 wt.%, Cr2O3 = 1.03-1.12 wt.%, TiO2 = 0.03-0.07 wt.%, N = 8).

Classification: Ureilite.

Specimens: 12.0 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. S.-C. Yang.

Data from:
  MB112
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Madrid
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):58.3
Pieces:1
Class:Ureilite
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):16.0-23.0; 4.4-12.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):11.4-18.6
Wollastonite (mol%):9.7-11.2
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and J. Boesenberg, BrownU
Type spec mass (g):12.0
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:S.-C. Yang
Comments:Work name SCY-87; submitted by A. Irving
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)
UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
BrownU: Brown University Providence, RI 02912, United States (institutional address; updated 7 Sep 2019)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9042 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1870 unapproved names)

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