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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10341 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10341 Observed fall: No Year found: 2015 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  92 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as R6. [show all] Search for other: Rumuruti chondrites, Rumuruti chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 1 Nov 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10341 (NWA 10341) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2015 Classification: Rumuruti chondrite (R6) Petrography: Fresh dark-grayish interior. A breccia composed of heterogeneously distributed type 6 lithic fragments in a fine-grained clastic groundmass. Ferroan olivine is the dominant mineral phase in clasts and groundmass. Minor phases include albitic feldspar, augite, chromite, pentlandite and pyrrhotite. FeNi metal is virtually absent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) Stehlik: Harald Stehlik, 1220 Wien, Austria (private address) |
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| 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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 7741 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1971 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||