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Northwest Africa 3009
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 3009
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 3009
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1500 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  L4-6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L4-6
Recommended:  L4-6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 33 approved meteorites classified as L4-6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7), L chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites
Data from:
  MB88
  Table 4
  Line 187:
Date:2001
Mass (g):1500
Pieces:1
Class:L4-6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.7
Classifier:J. Schlüter (Ham)
Type spec mass (g):35
Type spec location:Hamburg and MPI
Main mass:Industrial Research Center (IRC), Tripoli, Libya
Comments:br; Note omitted from MB88 by accident:
Institutions
   and collections		 Ham: Mineralogisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Grindelallee 48, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany (institutional address)
MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany (institutional address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3506 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 2663 unapproved names)

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