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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 11079 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 11079 Observed fall: No Year found: 2016 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 17 Feb 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 11079 (NWA 11079) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2016 Sep Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by Bob Falls in September 2016 from a Moroccan dealer at the Denver Show. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Granular chondrules (apparent diameter 700±500 μm; some spherical, some with concentric rims, some more irregular in shape) plus abundant irregularly-shaped, fine grained CAI and sparse aggregates of fine grained olivine+pentlandite are set in a deep brown matrix (~35 vol.%). Minerals identified in CAI include hedenbergite, pleonaste, perovskite, sodalite, Ca-K-bearing nepheline, awaruite, troilite and rare ilmenite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.4-46.7, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs0.8-1.1Wo1.2-4.0, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs0.9-1.6Wo32.2-37.8, N = 2), ferroan augite (Fs48.1Wo50.5). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 29.6 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. R. Falls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 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) |
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References: | Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |