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Northwest Africa 1783
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1783
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1783
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 413 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  L3.7
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L3.7
Recommended:  L3.7    [explanation]

This is 1 of 51 approved meteorites classified as L3.7.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 275:
Origin or pseudonym:Tafhraout area, Morocco
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:1 Nov 2000
Mass (g):413
Pieces:1
Class:L3.7
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):31.1-36.9
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.2-24.8
Classifier:M. Bourot-Denise, MNHNP
Type spec mass (g):20
Main mass:Fectay
Comments:sv
Institutions
   and collections		 MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address)
Fectay: Bruno Fectay and Carine Bidaut, La Memoire de la Terre SARL, 39800 Aumont, France; Website (private address)
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 9921 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1838 unapproved names)

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