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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10758 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10758 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 1 Mar 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 10758 (NWA 10758) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2016 Mar Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by Aras Jonikas in March 2016 from a Moroccan dealer. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Irregularly-shaped, granular chondrules (some rimmed) plus elongate, amoeboid, very fine grained AOA and coarser grained CAI (containing gehlenite, diopside, perovskite and spinel) are set in a brown matrix (~20 vol.%). Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.6-74.3, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs0.8-1.1Wo0.9-3.6, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs1.4-1.5Wo32.1-32.0, N = 2), Al-Ti-diopside (Fs0.3Wo57.0, Al2O3 = 16.6 wt.%, TiO2 = 2.3 wt.%). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 22.29 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with Mr. A. Jonikas. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 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) |