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Northwest Africa 10212
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10212
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10212
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 46.6 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  LL3-6
Recommended:  LL3-6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 33 approved meteorites classified as LL3-6.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 24 Aug 2015
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Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10212 (NWA 10212)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 6 Dec 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3-6)

History: One fragment of 46.6 g was purchased in Hamburg on Dec. 6, 2014, from a dealer from Morocco.

Petrography: A random sampling was obtained indicating minor to moderate degree of unequilibration of olivine and pyroxene. A microscopic study shows that the rock is a chondritic breccia consisting of various types of equilibrated lithologies (types LL4-6 fragments) and minor amounts of unequilibrated clasts. The sample also contains impact melt clasts. The sample is a relatively fresh (W1). The olivines show planar fractures clearly indicating shock stage S3.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa29.0±1.5 (Fa 23-31; n=20), orthopyroxene: Fs23.4±7.8Wo2.4±1.8 (Fs10-51Wo0.4-8.5; n=20).

Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Hamburg
Date:P 6 Dec 2014
Mass (g):46.6
Pieces:1
Class:LL3-6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):29.0±1.5 (n=20)
Ferrosilite (mol%):23.4±7.8 (n=20)
Wollastonite (mol%):2.4±1.8 (n=20)
Classifier:A. Bischoff and S. Ebert, IfP
Type spec mass (g):9.4
Type spec location:IfP
Main mass:Finder
Finder:Anonymous
Comments:Submitted by Ebert S.
Institutions
   and collections		 IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8495 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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