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Northwest Africa 14010
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14010
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14010
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Niger
Mass:help 1085 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 588 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 17 Oct 2021
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14010 (NWA 14010)

Niger

Purchased: 2018 Dec

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

History: Found in Niger in 2018 and purchased in December 2018 by Jesper Grønne from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco. A portion (142.7 g) was subsequently traded to Mark Lyon in August 2020 and an additional 12.4 g traded to Dustin Dickens.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Well-formed, unequilibrated magnetite-bearing chondrules (apparent diameter 800 ± 540 µm, N = 20) are set in about 20 vol% of a fine grained matrix containing Cr-magnetite, troilite, pentlandite and minor secondary barite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa27.5±17.0, range Fa0.9-58.6, N = 12), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs3.1±3.9Wo3.0±2.0, range Fs0.9-7.6Wo1.1-5.0, Al2O3 = 1.2-2.9 wt.%, N = 3), pigeonite (Fs1.7Wo7.3, Al2O3 = 3.9 wt.%), diopside (Fs1.0Wo41.2), augite (Fs29.6Wo47.9), plagioclase (An77.5-87.0Or0.1-0.0, N =2), magnetite (Cr2O3 = 1.1 wt.%, 0.1 wt.%, N = 2).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3).

Specimens: 21 g including one polished mount at UWB; 650 g including 375 g main mass with Mr. J. Grønne; 121 g with Mr. M. Lyon; 12.4 g with Mr. D. Dickens.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Agadir
Date:P 2018 Dec
Mass (g):1085
Pieces:6
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):27.5±17.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):3.1±3.9
Wollastonite (mol%):3.0±2.0
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):21.0
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:J. Grønne
Comments:Work names JG-014, Lyon21-2; 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)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Niger
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 93 approved meteorites from Niger (plus 4 unapproved names)

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