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Northwest Africa 13619
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13619
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13619
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 844 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  L~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 72 approved meteorites classified as L~5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 19 Nov 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13619 (NWA 13619)

Morocco

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Chengguang Liang from a Moroccan dealer at the China Mineral & Gem Show in Beijing City in Nov. 2019

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) light-gray stone of 844 g without fusion crust

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz) gray recrystallized matrix with distinct chondrules (0.4-2 mm, mean 0.8 mm) and irregular metal and sulfide specks and patches up to 3 mm with rusty halos

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.82

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~5, W1)

Specimens: 23.0 g on deposit at Kiel, Chengguang Liang holds the main mass, and 83 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
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Origin or pseudonym:desert
Place of purchase:Beijing, China
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):844
Pieces:1
Class:L~5
Weathering grade:W1
Magnetic suscept.:4.82
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):23.0
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Chengguang Liang
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZ163; 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)
Beijing: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2003 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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