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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13778 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13778 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 29 approved meteorites classified as CVox3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 8 Apr 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 110:
Northwest Africa 13778 (NWA 13778) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2021 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in early 2021. Physical characteristics: Dark brownish oriented stone with some fusion crust. Petrography: Carbonaceous chondrite composed of large, well-defined chondrules (mean diameter about 1 mm; up to 3 mm sized), up to 4 mm sized CAIs, and olivine amoeboids embedded into a fine-grained brownish-black matrix. Contains both, type I and type II chondrules. Opaque phases are metal and sulfides. Geochemistry: Ni in sulfides 18.3±0.3 wt%, N=10. Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3). Oxidized subgroup based on high concentrations of Ni in sulfides (Gattacceca et al., 2020). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Data from: MB110 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |