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Northwest Africa 12792
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12792
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12792
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 20 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  H5-melt breccia    [explanation]

This is 1 of 27 approved meteorites classified as H5-melt breccia.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 13 Mar 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 12792 (NWA 12792)

Morocco

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5, melt breccia)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Ziyao Wang from Sbai Mohamed at the mineral show in Wuhan in May. 2019

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) Many irregular red-brown stones, with a total weight of 20 kg. Some fragments show a shrapnel-like shape.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) few well developed chondrules in a strongly recrystallized matrix, with melt veins and clast-rich melt fragments. Metal and sulfide occur as irregular grains to drop like inclusions, and melt veins.

Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Olivine Fa18.5±0.3 (n=14); pyroxene Fs16.2±0.3Wo1.4±0.2 (n=7); mellillite; taenite; troilite. Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 5.48.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5-melt breccia)

Specimens: 21.4 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 165 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Place of purchase:Wuhan, China
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):>20000
Pieces:many
Class:H5-melt breccia
Fayalite (mol%):18.5±0.3 (n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.2±0.3 (n=7)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.2
Magnetic suscept.:5.48
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):21.4
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Ziyao Wang
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZ135; 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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1670 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 23 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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