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Northwest Africa 1463
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1463
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1463
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1001 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  Winonaite
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Winonaite
Recommended:  Winonaite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 86 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Winonaite.   [show all]
Search for other: Primitive achondrites, Winonaites
Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 86:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 27 Nov 2000
Mass (g):1001
Pieces:3
Class:Win
Fayalite (mol%):3.2±0.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):7.4±0.4
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA and G. Benedix, WashU
Type spec mass (g):975
Type spec location:ROM, and 18 g, UCLA
Comments:Opx: Wo1.2±0.2; Plag: An12.6Or4.6; purchased by Gregory
Institutions
   and collections
ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011)
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
WashU: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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