| Northwest Africa 15482 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 15482 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 15482 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  80.6 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (troct. anorth.). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 23 Feb 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup | Writeup from MB 112: Northwest Africa 15482 (NWA 15482) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Sep Classification: Lunar meteorite (troctolitic anorthosite) History: Purchased by Ziyao Wang in September 2022 from a dealer in Tan-Tan, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of lithic clasts and related crystalline debris dominated by anorthite and olivine with subordinate pigeonite and accessory low-Ti chromite, pentlandite and pervasive secondary barite granules. Geochemistry: Anorthite (An94.4-97.5Or0.2-0.0, N = 4), olivine (Fa19.0-45.6, FeO/MnO = 80-97, N = 5), pigeonite (Fs23.2-26.3Wo7.4-10.6, FeO/MnO = 42-50, N = 4). Classification: Lunar (troctolitic anorthositic breccia). Specimens: 16.9 g including one polished endcut at UWB; remainder with WangZ. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB112 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections | UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 2023-10-09) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 2012-01-15) WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 2011-10-17) WangZ: Ziyao Wang, Hebei GEO University North Campus, Huai An dong road 127, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province , China (private address; updated 2021-06-25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Cartier C., Consolmagno G., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Miao B. and Zhang B. (2024) The Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 112. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 59, 1820–1823. ?
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