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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 11060 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 11060 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 3 Mar 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 11060 (NWA 11060) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2016 Jul Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Purchased by Darryl Pitt in July 2016 from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Granular chondrules and irregularly-shaped, fine grained CAI are set in a black matrix (~30 vol.%). An extremely fine grained dark inclusion consists of dust-sized grains (mostly olivine, pyroxene and taenite) plus sparse larger grains of forsterite, enstatite and more ferroan olivine. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.5-91.2, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs0.8-0.9Wo0.9-3.7, N = 3), diopside (Fs1.1-2.2Wo37.3-42.4, N = 2). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 20.4 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with DPitt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) DPitt: Darryl Pitt, 225 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024, United States; Website (private address) |
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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) |