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Northwest Africa 3082 | |||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 3082 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 3082 Observed fall: No Year found: 2003 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 7.4 g | ||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 281 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 88:
Northwest Africa 3082 Northwest Africa Found 2003 Achondrite (eucrite) Two small stones totaling 7.4 g were found in 2003 by an anonymous finder in the Western Saharan desert. Classification and mineralogy (A. Greshake and M. Kurz): displays a widely unbrecciated basaltic texture of dominantly exsolved Ca-pyroxene and large blocky plagioclase; pigeonite, Fs50.1-53.3Wo9.7-14.8; augite, Fs40.9-44Wo21.2-24.1; plagioclase, An82.1; minor phases include silica, ilmenite, troilite, Al-Ti-rich chromite, and Fe-rich orthopyroxene with Fs59.9; low degree of shock; low degree of weathering. Specimens: type specimen 4.6 g plus one polished thin section MNB; remaining mass with anonymous finder. | ||||||||||||
Data from: MB88 Table 4 Line 203: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) 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 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||
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