This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11259
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:
468 ghistory:
| Recommended: | Eucrite-pmict [explanation] |
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Northwest Africa 11259 (NWA 11259)
(Northwest Africa)
Purchased: 2016
Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)
History: Purchased by Ken Regelman in 2016 from a Moroccan dealer.
Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia composed of lithic eucrite clasts with a variety of textures plus angular mineral grains in a finer grained matrix. Subophitic, quench-textured and very fine grained granulitic clasts were observed in a single thin section. Minerals are exsolved pigeonite, calcic plagioclase (exhibiting undulose extinction), unexsolved low-Ca pyroxene, silica polymorph, ilmenite, chromite and troilite.
Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs59.2Wo3.2, FeO/MnO = 31, N = 1), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs32.0Wo38.2, FeO/MnO = 32, N = 1), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs31.2Wo5.6, FeO/MnO = 28, N = 1), plagioclase (An86.1-92.2Or0.7-0.2, N = 3).
Classification: Eucrite (polymict breccia).
Specimens: 20.1 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. K. Regelman.
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| Place of purchase: | Morocco |
| Date: | P 2016 |
| Mass (g): | 468 |
| Pieces: | 1 |
| Class: | Eucrite-pmict |
| Shock stage: | moderate |
| Weathering grade: | moderate |
| Ferrosilite (mol%): | 59.2; 31.2; 32.0 |
| Wollastonite (mol%): | 3.2; 5.6; 38.2 |
| Classifier: | A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS |
| Type spec mass (g): | 20.1 |
| Type spec location: | UWB |
| Main mass: | K. Regelman |
| Comments: | Work name KR17-2; submitted by A. Irving |
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UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)