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Northwest Africa 10502
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10502
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10502
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 222 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 353 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 3 Feb 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10502 (NWA 10502)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015 May

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: Purchased by Pierre-Marie Pelé in May 2015 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well-formed, fairly closely packed chondrules (apparent diameter 1.3±0.8 mm) are set in a finer matrix.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa2.1-38.3, Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.05-0.07 wt.%, mean 0.06±0.01 wt.%, N = 8), orthopyroxene (Fs3.2-24.3Wo0.4-2.1, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs16.5-16.7Wo30.4-33.8, N = 2). Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.02.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3).

Specimens: 26.28 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with Mr. P. Pelé.

Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2015 May
Mass (g):221.51
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):2.1-38.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):3.2-24.3
Wollastonite (mol%):0.4-2.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.02
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):26.28
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:P. Pelé
Comments:PMP15-3; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 7547 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1970 unapproved names)

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