Lunar Meteorite: Northwest Africa 13185

from The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109

Northwest Africa 13185 (NWA 13185)

northwestern Africa
Purchased: 2019 March
Mass: 300 g (several pieces)

Classification: Lunar Meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Purchased in Agadir, Morocco by Aziz Habibi in March 2019.

Physical characteristics: The dark brown stones exhibit diffuse small clasts in a very fine grained matrix.

Petrography: A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of small mineral clasts plus sparse lithic clasts (including microgabbro and some quench-textured glassy beads) set in a fine grained, partly glassy and microvesicular matrix. Minerals include anorthite, olivine, orthopyroxene, pigeonite, ferropigeonite and augite together with accessory Ti chromite, ilmenite, zircon, kamacite and secondary barite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_28.2-45.8, FeO/MnO = 97-125, N = 5), orthopyroxene (Fs_41.0-43.0Wo_2.4-2.9, FeO/MnO = 57-66, N = 2), pigeonite (Fs_46.5Wo_5.4; Fs_27.6Wo_8.5; Fs_28.0-28.7Wo_11.0-10.4; Fs_44.2Wo_16.9; FeO/MnO = 53-61, N = 5), ferropigeonite (Fs_60.7Wo_18.7, FeO/MnO = 74), augite (Fs_22.3Wo_40.1, FeO/MnO = 50; Fs_46.9Wo_38.9, FeO/MnO = 68; N = 2), anorthite (An_95.8-97.1Or_0.3-0.1, N = 3).9.7, MgO=6.2, FeO=2.3, MnO=0.07, CaO=15.7, Na₂O=0.45 (wt%).

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia)

Specimens: 20.3 g including one polished piece at UWB; 100 g with Mr. M. Stream; remainder with A. Habibi.

Randy Says…

I have not studied NWA 13185. 

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