Classifications in Progress

UMin Collection

These meteorites are in the process of being analyzed or are waiting for approval from the Meteoritical Society's Nomenclature Committee. Some have provisional names (NWA, NEA etc.), but most have temporary names we use in the lab to identify them.

A dark brown meteorite with a mottled surface.

Working Name: BJC 003

Provisional Name: NWA 16314

Classification: CK5

Status: Submitted April '24, pending before the Nomenclature Committee

Working Name: CAZ 115

Provisional Name: N/A

Classification: Unknown

Status: Awaiting O isotope data (UNM)

Three slices of a gray meteorite breccia with light clasts and small chunks of dark rusted metal.

Working Name: MAS 03

Provisional Name: NWA 16792

Classification: Eucrite, polymict

Status: Provisionally classified

Working Name: ML 082

Provisional Name: NEA 083

Classification: Lunar, noritic anorthosite

Status: Submitted Jan '25, pending before the Nomenclature Committee

Two slices of a brown meteorite breccia with many small clasts.

Working Name: ML 084

Provisional Name: NWA 17511

Classification: Lunar, fragmental breccia

Status: Submitted Jan '25, pending before the Nomenclature Committee

Working Name: Zli 099

Provisional Name: NWA 16317

Classification: Diogenite

Status: Submitted June '24, pending before the Nomenclature Committee

A light colored meteorite with abundance iron metal and sulfides glinting in the light.

Working Name: Zli 121

Provisional Name: N/A

Classification: Chondrite, ungrouped

Status: Awaiting O isotope data (UNM)

A slice of a gray meteorite breccia with light clasts spread heterogeneously throughout.

Working Name: Zli 141

Provisional Name: NWA 17513

Classification: Eucrite, monomict

Status: Submitted Jan '25, tabled to vote

Working Name: Zli 150

Provisional Name: Mali 001 (TBC)

Classification: Howardite

Status: Submitted July '24, pending before the Nomenclature Committee

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