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Northwest Africa 1459
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1459
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1459
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 53 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  Diogenite-olivine
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Diogenite
Recommended:  Diogenite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 518 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
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Writeup from MB 87:

Northwest Africa 1459

Morocco

Purchased 2002 March

Achondrite (diogenite, olivine-bearing)

A small complete stone (49 g) found near Iriqui, Morocco was purchased from a Moroccan dealer by A. and G. Hupé (xHupé) in 2002 March. The interior of the stone is dark yellow-green, and the exterior is coated by a thin, weathered fusion crust with protruding subhedral chromite grains (up to 4 mm). Classification and mineralogy (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS): coarse-grained cataclastic protogranular texture. Subequal amounts of orthopyroxene (Fs28Wo4.7 to Fs30Wo6.5, FeO/MnO = 28–32) and olivine (Fa36; FeO/MnO = 46.5), with minor chromite (Cr/(Cr + Al) = 0.62 cores to 0.66 rims), anorthitic plagioclase (Ab6.8-Ab9.3), troilite, and metal (0.06 wt% Ni). Some orthopyroxene grains (up to 10 mm)have sparse exsolution lamellae of clinopyroxene (Fs10Wo46 to Fs11Wo45, FeO/MnO = 28–32). Some olivine grains (up to 8 mm) have multiple tilt-boundaries. Irregular areas along grain boundaries are composed of symplectitic intergrowths of chromite and orthopyroxene. Oxygen isotope composition (D. Rumble, CIW): δ18O = +3.62 ± 0.02‰; δ17O = +1.72 ± 0.04‰; ∆17O = -0.19 ± 0.02‰. Specimens: type specimen, 10 g, and one polished thin section, UWS; main mass, xHupé.

Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 85:
Place of purchase:Zagora
Date:P Apr 2002
Mass (g):53
Pieces:1
Class:Dio
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):10
Main mass:Hupé
Plots: O isotopes:  
Institutions
   and collections
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
CIW: Carnegie Insitution Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, 5251 Broad Branch Rd., NW, Washington DC 20015, United States (institutional address)
xHupé: (old address—now see GHupé or AHupé) G. and A. Hupe, 2616 Lake Youngs Court SE, Renton, WA 98058., United States (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Michael S. Scherman   
Rene Schmit   
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2012 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 35 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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