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Northwest Africa 10386

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 10386
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10386
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 22.7 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	Ureilite
Recommended:			Ureilite [explanation]

This is 1 of 605 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites

Comments:

Approved 1 Nov 2015

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10386 (NWA 10386)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2014

Classification: Ureilite

History: Bought by Luc Labenne in Agadir in 2014

Physical characteristics: A single brown stone

Petrography: Aggregate of coarse olivine grains with reduced margins and minor pyroxenes, with recrystallized texture. Metal is found as veins in between grains, and as small grains in the olivine margins.

Geochemistry: Olivine cores Fa_19.7±1.8(N=3). Orthopyroxene Fs_19.1Wo_4.0(N=1). log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.35.

Classification: ureilite, moderate weathering

Specimens: 5.3 g at CEREGE. Main mass with Labenne

Data from:
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Place of purchase:	Agadir
Date:	P 2014
Mass (g):	22.7
Pieces:	1
Class:	Ureilite
Weathering grade:	moderate
Fayalite (mol%):	19.7±1.8 (n=3)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	19.1 (N=1)
Wollastonite (mol%):	4.0
Magnetic suscept.:	4.35
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, H. Pourkhorsandi, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	5.3
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	Labenne Luc
Finder:	Labenne Luc
Comments:	Submitted by J. 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 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 8509 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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