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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 10082 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 10082 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 214 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 May 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 10082 (NWA 10082) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2014 Aug Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Purchased by Alexandre Debienne in August 2014 from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Very fine grained annealed breccia with granoblastic texture. Minerals are anorthite, olivine, pigeonite, pentlandite, pleonaste and troilite, with minor fayalite and kamacite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa29.2-31.4, FeO/MnO = 103-129, N = 3), pigeonite (Fs21.7-23.0Wo17.2-11.8, FeO/MnO = 55-56, N = 3). Bulk composition (R. Korotev, WUSL) INAA of subsamples gave the following mean abundances (in wt.%) FeO 3.5, Na2O 0.46; (in ppm) Sc 5.1, Ni 490, La 2.8, Sm 0.73, Eu 0.96, Yb 1.1, Lu 0.15, Hf 1.0, Th 0.72. Classification: Lunar (feldspathic granulitic breccia). Paired with NWA 8022 based on distinctive texture and bulk composition. Specimens: 1.28 g including a polished piece at PSF; main mass with Mr. A. Debienne. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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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 7552 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1969 unapproved names) |