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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 049 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 049 Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  276 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 400 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 85:
Northwest Africa 049 Northwest Africa Purchased 2000 Achondrite (eucrite) A 276 g stone was purchased in Morocco. Mineralogy and classification (J. Barrat, UAng; P. Gillet, ENSL): contains centimetersized ophitic clasts in a brecciated matrix; pyroxenes in clasts are zoned with Mg-rich cores, Fs32.3Wo5.9 to Fs52.7Wo7.3; clasts contain numerous veinlets of olivine, Fa78–82; matrix contains pyroxene with variable thicknesses of exsolution lamellae, with or without olivine; this eucrite is probably polymict. Specimens: 23 g plus two thin sections, ENSL; main mass, Carion. | ||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB85 Table 4 Line 17: |
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| Institutions and collections |
ENSL: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex, France (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011) Carion: Alain Carion, 6 rue Jean du Bellay, 75004 Paris, France; Website (private address) UAng: Université d'Angers, Faculté des Sciences, 2 bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex, France (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||