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Northwest Africa 1067

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 1067
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1067
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 118 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 87	(2003)	E6
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	E6
Recommended:			EL-melt rock [explanation]

This is 1 of 26 approved meteorites classified as EL-melt rock. [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), Enstatite-rich meteorites, and Melted chondrites

Comments:

Revised 1 Sep 2019: Reclassified by Rubin (2016)

Writeup

Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 1067: reclassification

Rubin (2016) reclassified Al Haggounia 001 and paired specimens as "vesicular, incompletely melted, EL chondrite impact melt rock[s]." NWA 1067 is likely paired, and is therefore also reclassified.

Bibliography:

Rubin A.E. (2016) Impact melting of the largest known enstatite meteorite: Al Haggounia 001, a fossil EL chondrite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 51 1576-1587. (link)

Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 36:

Place of purchase:	Erfoud
Date:	P 2001
Mass (g):	118
Pieces:	1
Class:	E6
Weathering grade:	W4
Ferrosilite (mol%):	<1
Classifier:	A. Sokol and A. Bischoff, Mün
Type spec mass (g):	20.5
Main mass:	MChin
Comments:	no relic chondrules; purchased by MChin from Bessey

Institutions
and collections

Bessey: Dean Bessey ,P.O. Box 40810, Glenfield, Auckland 1310 , New Zealand; Website (private address)
MChin: Matteo Chinellato, Via Triestina, 126/A-30030 Tessera, Venezia, Italy; Website (private address)
Mün: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
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akira1988
Matteo Chinellato

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)

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