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Northwest Africa 3066 | |||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 3066 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 3066 Observed fall: No Year found: 2002 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 34.9 g | ||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 407 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 88:
Northwest Africa 3066 Northwest Africa Found 2002 Achondrite (eucrite) A single stone of 34.9 g was found in 2002 by an anonymous finder in the Western Saharan desert and purchased 2002 in Tagounite. Classification and mineralogy (A. Greshake and M. Kurz, MNB): polymict breccia with clastic texture of basaltic, impact melt, and abundant mineral clasts set into a fine-grained matrix of compositionally zoned orthopyroxene (Fs21-54.3), exsolved Ca-pyroxene, and opaques; plagioclase, An93.1; pigeonite, Fs31.7-58.3Wo5.1-14.4; augite, Fs23.9Wo35.1; minor phases include silica, ilmenite, troilite, and chromite; low degree of shock; low degree of weathering. Specimens: Main mass Christian Anger, Austria; type specimen 7.1 g plus one polished thin section MNB. | ||||||||||||
Data from: MB88 Table 4 Line 198: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) Anger: Christian Anger, Korngasse 6, 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria; Website (private address) Kurz: M. Kurz, Schillerstrasse 7, D-34626 Neukirchen, Germany (private address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||
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