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Northwest Africa 15810
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15810
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15810
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2023
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1025 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 112  (2023)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 487 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 19 Mar 2023
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Writeup from MB 112:

Northwest Africa 15810 (NWA 15810)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2023

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly rounded and well packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a fine-grained grayish to light brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare, often altered FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB112
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2023
Mass (g):1025
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):11.4±11.3 (0.6-39.3, n=25)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.6±7.5 (2.7-23.9, n=45)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.6±0.6 (0.2-1.4, n=45)
Magnetic suscept.:3.99
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):25.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Polandmet - Marcin Cimala
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Polandmet: targoniny 30 43445 Dziegielow Poland, Poland; Website (institutional address; updated 7 May 2021)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112, in preparation (2023)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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