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Northwest Africa 1712
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1712
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1712
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 424 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12331 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB88
  Table 4
  Line 21:
Origin or pseudonym:Northwest Africa
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 31 Oct 2002
Mass (g):424.1
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.3
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):24.7
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Comments:br, sv, metal veins; purchased by Verish from Reed, imported by David Gregory
Institutions
   and collections		 UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9116 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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