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Northwest Africa 534
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 534
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 534
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 29 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  LL5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 85  (2001)  LL6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  LL6
Recommended:  LL6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2892 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as LL6.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB85
  Table 4
  Line 163:
Place of purchase:Rissani
Date:P 2000?
Mass (g):29
Pieces:1
Class:LL6
Fayalite (mol%):27.7
Classifier:Ph. Gillet (ENSL) and A. Jambon (UPVI)
Type spec mass (g):3
Main mass:anonymous buyer
Institutions
   and collections		 ENSL: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex, France (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011)
UPVI: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI),Case 110, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France (institutional address; updated 5 Oct 2014)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9368 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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