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NWA725

Name

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Structure Class

Primitive achondrites

Chemical Class

Winonaite

Country

Year found

unknown

Mass

3.82 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 89.10g

This is 1 of 81 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Winonaite. Search for this meteorite in the Natural History Museum collection (U.K.): Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)

NWA12951

Name

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Structure Class

Primitive achondrites

Chemical Class

Winonaite

Country

Year found

2019

Mass

8.03 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 9.9g   (2) 9.7g

History: Three stones of similar size were purchased by Dr. Albert Jambon in August 2019 from a dealer in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Physical characteristics: About 80% of the surface of each stone is wind ablated with prominent metal veins and wedges separating depressed silicate regions, but remnant regmaglypts can be discerned. Large exposed metal areas exhibit a visible Widmanstätten pattern as thin, shiny taenite bands separating millimetric kamacite with a greenish oxidized surface. The bottom (formerly buried) sides of the stones are covered with remnants of weathered fusion crust. Fine grained olivine and green pyroxene are observed in places where the crust is missing. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Silicate-rich regions of the specimen have a metamorphic, triple grain junction texture (mean grainsize ~150 µm) and are composed of olivine, orthopyroxene, sodic plagioclase, kamacite, taenite and troilite. Cross-cutting metal-rich veins and patches are composed predominantly of kamacite and taenite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa1.1-1.3, FeO/MnO = 3-5, N = 5), orthopyroxene (Fs6.5-6.9Wo1.8-2.1, FeO/MnO = 9-10, N = 4), plagioclase (An14.8-15.4Or3.1-3.4, N = 2). Oxygen isotopes (K. Ziegler, UNM): analyses of acid-washed subsamples by laser fluorination gave, respectively, δ17O 1.969, 2.049, 2.119; δ18O 4.730, 4.887, 5.035; Δ17O -0.528, -0.531, -0.540 per mil. Classification: Winonaite (metal-veined). Specimens: 33.3 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Dr. A. Jambon.

Name

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Structure Class

Primitive achondrites

Chemical Class

Winonaite

Country

Year found

2020

Mass

1240 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 9.22g   (2) 4.20g

History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Morocco. Physical characteristics: Brownish sandblasted fragment with some black fusion crust preserved. Large metal areas are exposed. Petrography: The meteorite is composed of silicate-dominated regions crosscut by up to 8 mm wide anastomosing FeNi metal veins or pockets of metal at intersecting veins. Silicate regions show a recrystallized texture of 50 to 200 µm sized enstatite, forsteritic olivine, diopside, and sodic feldspar grains often joining at 120 degree grain boundaries. These regions contain 50 to 150 µm sized finely dispersed FeNi metal and troilite grains. Etched FeNi metal veins show Widmanstätten pattern with up to 2 mm wide kamacite bands. Rare schreibersite inclusions are present in the metal. Accessories include daubreelite and alabandite associated with troilite as well as chromite. Some secondary Fe-oxides ocurr on silicate grain boundaries and metal vein margins. Geochemistry: olivine: Fa1.3±0.3 (Fa0.9-1.7, FeO/MnO=4±1, n=5); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs7.2±0.2Wo1.9±0.2 (Fs6.8-7.4Wo1.5-2.1, FeO/MnO=10±1, n=5); diopside: Fs3.1±0.3Wo45.3±1.0 (Fs2.7-3.7Wo45.2-46.5, FeO/MnO=7±1, n=5); feldspar: An13.1±0.3Ab83.4±0.3Or3.6±0.1, n=6

NWA13679
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