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Northwest Africa 17029
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 17029
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 17029
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2024
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 804 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 862 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 13 Sep 2024
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 113:

Northwest Africa 17029 (NWA 17029)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2024 Jan

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: Purchased by Terry Boudreaux in January 2024 from a dealer in Zagora, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and J. Boesenberg, BrownU) Well-defined unequilibrated chondrules (apparent diameter 1080 ± 440 µm, N = 26) containing devitrified glass are set in a sparse fine grained matrix containingi kamacite (stained by secondary Fe oxides), taenite, chromite, chlorapatite and troilite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa21.0±9.0, range Fa1.0-39.1, N = 30); Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.01-0.64 wt.%, mean 0.10 wt.%, sd 0.18 wt.%, N = 29), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs10.3±6.8Wo1.2±1.4, range Fs2.4-28.6Wo0.2-4.2, N = 22), subcalcic augite (Fs16.8Wo28.5). Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.74.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3).

Specimens: 25.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Boudreaux.

Data from:
  MB113
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Zagora
Date:P 2024 Jan
Mass (g):804
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W0/1
Fayalite (mol%):21.0±9.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.3±6.8
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±1.4
Magnetic suscept.:4.74
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and J. Boesenberg, BrownU
Type spec mass (g):25.2
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:Boudreaux
Comments:Work name TB24-6; 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, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Boudreaux: Terry Boudreaux, Illinois, United States (private address)
BrownU: Brown University Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) 324 Brook Street Providence, RI 02912 , United States (institutional address; updated 21 Jul 2024)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 113, in preparation (2024)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9927 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1837 unapproved names)

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