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Northwest Africa 13150
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13150
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13150
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 5.9 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CM2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 544 approved meteorites classified as CM2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 17 Feb 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13150 (NWA 13150)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019 Sep

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CM2)

Physical characteristics: Several black fragments from few milligrams to 0.18 g

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Small chondrules (average apparent diameter 300±150 µm, n=19) and minerals fragments set in an abundant fine-grained, Fe-rich, phyllosilicate-rich matrix. Many chondrules have fine-grained dust rim. Opaque minerals are mostly magnetite and sulfides, with rare metal as small grains enclosed within silicates.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa8.2±10.2 (n=13), Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.37±0.07 wt% (n=5). Low-Ca pyroxene Fs1.9Wo1.0 (n=2). Microprobe analytical total over a 50 × 50 um2 matrix area is 75.6 wt%.

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE, main mass with Kuntz

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Guelmin, Morocco
Date:P 2019 Sep
Mass (g):5.91
Pieces:several
Class:CM2
Fayalite (mol%):8.2±10.2 (n=13)
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.9 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0
Magnetic suscept.:4.20
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):1.20
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Kuntz
Comments:work name K447; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 7579 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1969 unapproved names)

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