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Northwest Africa 13259
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13259
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13259
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 24.4 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 329 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
Search for other: Lunar meteorites
Comments: Approved 5 Apr 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13259 (NWA 13259)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 26.10.2018

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: The sample was purchased October 26, 2018 in Munich as a single piece of 24.4 g.

Physical characteristics: The piece has a dark appearance with white clasts and no fusion crust. Saw cuts reveal a breccia with numerous angular shaped, mm-sized, white feldspathic clasts set in a predominantly dark gray to black groundmass. Some brownish clasts are also visible. The clasts are smaller than most other lunar breccias, which typically contain cm-sized fragments.

Petrography: (A. Bischoff and K. Klemm, IfP). SEM images show that it is a breccia of different clasts embedded in a fine-grained matrix. The groundmass is partly a melt matrix with abundant pores (vesicles). The lithic clasts primarily consist of highland clasts dominated by anorthositic lithologies, but also fragments with abundant mafic mineral (olivine, pyroxenes) are frequently observed. Typical melt clasts and melt spherules are also present. The plagioclase has been partially transformed into maskelynite. Mineral fragments of olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase (and maskelynite), ilmenite and an SiO2 phase were found. Ubiquitous melt veins and vesicles are present throughout the groundmass. Locally, the rock can be defined as a melt breccia.

Geochemistry: (A. Bischoff and K. Klemm, IfP) Mineral compositions: Olivine Fa38.4±6.6, range Fa29-56, Fe/Mn=113, n=15; low-Ca pyroxene Fs40.7±19.6Wo16.9±7.4 Fe/Mn=73, n=11; Ca-pyroxene Fs38.0±15.6Wo38.3±3.0, Fe/Mn=74, n=13; plagioclase: An95.8±0.8, n=4, one grain with An59 was also found.

Classification: Lunar, less feldspathic, regolith to melt breccia

Specimens: Type specimen: 4.9 g IfP

Data from:
  MB109
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Place of purchase:Munich
Date:P 2018 Oct 26
Mass (g):24.4
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Fayalite (mol%):38.4±6.6 (n=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):40.7±19.6 (n=11); 38.0±15.6 (n=13)
Wollastonite (mol%):16.9±7.4 (n=11); 38.3±3.0 (n=13)
Classifier:K.Klemm, Addi Bischoff, IfP
Type spec mass (g):4.9
Type spec location:IfP
Main mass:Jürgen Nauber (jnmczurich)
Comments:Submitted by Klemm K.
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. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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