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Northwest Africa 11096

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 11096
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11096
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 216 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 106	(2018)	LL7
Recommended:			LL7 [explanation]

This is 1 of 68 approved meteorites classified as LL7. [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 21 Feb 2017

Writeup

Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11096 (NWA 11096)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL7)

History: Bought in Morocco

Physical characteristics: A crusted stone. Cut surface reveals a gray interior with brownish staining.

Petrography: Recrystallized texture with triple junctions. Plagioclase to 200 μm, troilite to 600 μm, metal to 300 μm, chromite. No chondrule visible in the 1.5 cm2 section.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa_30.8(N=1). Orthopyroxene Fs_25.7±0.1Wo_1.7±0.3(N=2), Ca-Px Fs_12.6Wo_41.6(N=1). Plagioclase An_10.2Ab_83.0Or_6.9(N=1). Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 3.00.

Classification: LL7

Specimens: 30 g and a polished section at CEREGE. Main mass with Luc Labenne.

Data from:
  MB106
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Place of purchase:	Morocco
Date:	P 2015
Mass (g):	216
Pieces:	1
Class:	LL7
Weathering grade:	W4
Fayalite (mol%):	30.8 (N=1)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	25.6±0.1 (N=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.7±0.3
Magnetic suscept.:	3.00
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	30.4
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	LucL abenne
Finder:	L. Labenne
Comments:	work name LL-2015-52; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca

Institutions
and collections

CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)
Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012)

Catalogs:

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:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 7579 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1969 unapproved names)

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