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Northwest Africa 15110
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15110
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15110
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 41 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CO3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 639 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CO3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites
Comments: Approved 23 Jul 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15110 (NWA 15110)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania in May, 2022.

Physical characteristics: Dark brownish to reddish fragment without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a brownish to reddish interior and is predominantly composed of abundant small chondrules, CAIs, and mineral fragments set into a fine-grained matrix. Chondrules have a mean diameter of about 170 µm. Opaque phases are metal and troilite often altered to iron oxides and hydroxides.

Data from:
  MB111
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Place of purchase:Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Date:P 2022
Mass (g):41
Pieces:1
Class:CO3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:high
Fayalite (mol%):22.1±13.6 (0.8-36.8, n=21)
Ferrosilite (mol%):4.0±2.8 (1.8-11.4, n=15)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.8 (0.9-3.3, n=15)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):10.2
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Salamu Ali
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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