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Northwest Africa 1201

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 1201
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1201
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Morocco
Mass: 206 g

Classification
history:

NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	H4
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 86	(2002)	H4
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	H4
Recommended:			H4 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 117:

Origin or pseudonym:	Zag
Date:	Nov 2000
Latitude:	28°00.05'N
Longitude:	9°16.20'W
Mass (g):	206
Pieces:	2
Class:	H4
Weathering grade:	W0
Fayalite (mol%):	19.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.4
Classifier:	F. Wlotzka (MPI) and M. Kurz (Kurz)
Type spec mass (g):	20
Type spec location:	MPI
Main mass:	Kurz

Institutions
and collections

Kurz: M. Kurz, Schillerstrasse 7, D-34626 Neukirchen, Germany (private address)
MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)

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Geography:

Morocco

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(28° 0'N, 9° 16'W)
Recommended::	(28° 0' 3"N, 9° 16' 12"W)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.3 km apart

Statistics:
This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Guelmim-Es-Semara, Morocco (plus 2 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 2082 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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