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Northwest Africa 1672
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1672
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1672
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 12.8 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  Eucrite-unbr
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Eucrite
Recommended:  Eucrite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 603 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Eucrite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 231:
Place of purchase:Denver
Date:P 10 Sep 2002
Mass (g):12.75
Class:Euc ub
Ferrosilite (mol%):59.6
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS
Type spec mass (g):2.6
Main mass:ROM
Comments:fine-grained
Institutions
   and collections		 ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
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