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Northwest Africa 315
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 315
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 315
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 64 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  H4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6339 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 18:
Origin or pseudonym:Algeria
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Jan 2001
Mass (g):64
Pieces:1
Class:H4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):19.1 ± 1.8
Classifier:A. Rubin and H. Imai (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):15.56
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Gessler
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)
Gessler: Nicholas Gessler, 2010 Calgary Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States (private address; updated 7 Jul 2016)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8394 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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