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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 13949 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 13949 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites classified as CVred3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 31 May 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 110:
Northwest Africa 13949 (NWA 13949) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: March, 2021 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVred3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Nouadhibou, Mauritania in early March, 2021. Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust. Petrography: Carbonaceous chondrite composed of well-defined chondrules (mean diameter about 900 µm), CAIs (up to 1 cm), and olivine amoeboids all set into a fine-grained almost black matrix. Opaque phases are metal and sulfides. Some chondrules show reddish staining due to terrestrial weathering. Geochemistry: Ni in sulfides <0.12 wt%, N=11; Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVred3). Reduced subgroup based on low 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 8890 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names) |