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Northwest Africa 11263 (R3)

Individual. Weight: 0.8 g

Northwest Africa 11263
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11263
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11263
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: Morocco
Mass: 281 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106(2018)  R3
Recommended:  R3

This is 1 of 38 approved meteorites classified as R3.
Comments: Approved 31 May 2017
Writeup
Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11263 (NWA 11263)

Morocco

Purchased: Feb 2016

Classification: Rumuruti chondrite (R3)

History: Purchased by Giorgio Tomelleri from a Moroccan dealer.

Physical characteristics: Several small fragments with black fusion crusts (total weight 281 g).

Petrography: (V. Moggi Cecchi, G. Pratesi, S. Caporali, UniFi): The thin section displays a texture consisting of separated, well-formed chondrules (ranging in diameter 0.3-0.9 mm), sometimes rimmed with pentlandite. Chondrules types are mainly PO, PP and POP; a forsterite-rich PO chondrule is present as well as an enstatite PP chondrule; the matrix is fine and contains olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene. Among opaque phases the most abundant is pentlandite although Ti-bearing chromite can be occasionally found.

Geochemistry: (V. Moggi Cecchi, G. Pratesi, S. Caporali, UniFi): Olivine in POP chondrules (Fa26.8±15.6, N = 15), orthopyroxene (Fs13.3±6.3Wo1.2±0.2, N = 8), clinopyroxene (Fs10.8±0.2Wo44.9±0.8, N = 4). Oxygen isotopes: (I.Franchi, R.Greenwood, OU) ?17O = 5.24 ?, ?18O = 5.99 ?, ?17O = 2.12 ?.

Classification: R3 chondrite

Specimens: 20 g including one polished thin section at MSN-Fi; main mass with Tomelleri.

Data from:
  MB106
State/Prov/County:Morocco
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Feb 2016
Mass (g):281
Pieces:many
Class:R3
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):26.8±15.6 (n=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):13.3±6.3 (n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.2
Classifier:V. Moggi Cecchi, S. Caporali, G. Pratesi, MSN-FI
Type spec mass (g):20.0
Type spec location:MSN-FI
Main mass:Tomelleri
Comments:Submitted by Vanni Moggi Cecchi

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