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Northwest Africa 13852
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13852
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13852
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 100 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 452 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 28 Mar 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 13852 (NWA 13852)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Light brownish rock with some patches of fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a perfect chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly rounded chondrules (mean apparent diameter 0.7±0.4 mm) in a more fine-grained brownish, sometimes reddish stained matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3). LL group based on magnetic susceptibility.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2021
Mass (g):100
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):12.8±10.1 (2.3-38.4, n=28)
Ferrosilite (mol%):11.8±7.2 (4.2-26.2, n=27)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0±0.8 (0.2-2.9, n=27)
Magnetic suscept.:3.56
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
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: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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

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