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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 1611 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 1611 Observed fall: No Year found: unknown Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  6 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 21 Sep 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 99:
Northwest Africa 1611 (NWA 1611) (Northwest Africa) Find date unknown Classification: Iron meteorite (IAB-MG) Petrography: Sample is an octahedrite, probably a coarse octahedrite with band-width poorly determined to be 1.6 mm + 0.7 mm or -0.5 mm. Sample consists almost entirely of kamacite. A few dark plessite fields, maybe 2% of the total area, are highly elongated. A mineral along some kamacite boundaries appears to be schreibersite. Geochemistry: Co (mg/g) 4.68, Ni (mg/g) 67.4, Ga (µg/g) 84.9, Ge (µg/g) 303, As (µg/g) 13.5, Ir (µg/g) 1.81, Au (µg/g) 1.55. Submitter: J. T. Wasson, UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB99 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) Carion: Alain Carion, 6 rue Jean du Bellay, 75004 Paris, France; Website (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9116 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||