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Northwest Africa 10498
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10498
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10498
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 4.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  CO3.0
Recommended:  CO3.0    [explanation]

This is 1 of 22 approved meteorites classified as CO3.0.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites
Comments: Approved 3 Feb 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10498 (NWA 10498)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Mar

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3.0)

History: Purchased in Spain by Darryl Pitt in March 2013 from a Mauritanian dealer.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Small, well-formed chondrules (apparent diameter 0.35 ± 0.2 mm), mineral fragments and sparse, irregularly-shaped CAI are set in a deep brown matrix (~40 vol.%).

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.6-65.6, Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.19-0.60 wt.%, mean 0.32 wt.%, sd 0.12 wt.%, N = 20), orthopyroxene (Fs1.0-1.3Wo1.1; Fs38.4Wo1.1, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs0.9Wo32.0).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3.0). The mean and range in Cr2O3 contents of ferroan olivine occurring as rims and as matrix grains is essentially the same as for Colony, which was designated as a CO3.0 by Grossman and Brearley (2005, Figure 5).

Specimens: 1.13 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with DPitt.

Bibliography:
  • Grossman J.N. and Brearley A.J. (2005) The onset of metamorphism in ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 40, 87-122. (link)
Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Spain
Date:P 2013 Mar
Mass (g):4.1
Pieces:1
Class:CO3.0
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):0.6-65.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.0-1.3
Wollastonite (mol%):1.1
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):1.13
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:D. Pitt
Comments:DP 738; submitted by A. Irving
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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9116 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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