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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10286 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10286 Observed fall: No Year found: 2005 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites classified as H3-5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 Mar 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 106:
Northwest Africa 10286 (NWA 10286) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2005 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3-5) History: Purchased by an anonymous collector from a dealer at the Munich Show in 2005 and subsequently donated to the PSF. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Predominantly an unequilibrated specimen consisting of well-formed chondrules (apparent diameter up to 1.2 mm) in a finer grained matrix rich in stained metal, but one type 5 recrystallized clast is present in the studied thin section. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.7-48.5, Cr2O3 in ferroan examples 0.06-0.53 wt.%, mean 0.23 wt.%, N = 7), orthopyroxene (Fs3.8-38.4Wo0.2-1.9, N = 3), augite (Fs5.6-7.9Wo47.3-46.0, N = 2). Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3-5 breccia). Specimens: The entire specimen plus one polished thin section made from it are reposited at PSF. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) |
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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 7543 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1973 unapproved names) |