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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 8050 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 8050 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 602 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 27 Jan 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 8050 (NWA 8050) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2013 Apr Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by A. Gren in April 2013 from a dealer in Tan Tan, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Irregularly shaped, granular chondrules (mean 1.4±1.1 mm; some with multiple dust rims) and fairly abundant, fine grained ~3.2 mm CAI in a brown matrix. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa1.2-45.9, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs0.7Wo1.0, N = 2), pigeonite (Fs1.0Wo6.2), augite (Fs0.5Wo40.6), ferroan diopside (Fs47.8Wo51.3). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 38.7 g including one polished thin section at UWB. The remaining material is held by Gren. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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) UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012) Gren: Andreas Gren, Hamburg, Germany (private address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |