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Northwest Africa 924
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 924
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 924
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 355 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  H5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11077 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB87
  Table 8
  Line 30:
Place of purchase:M'hamid
Date:P Jun 2001
Mass (g):355
Pieces:5
Class:H5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.2±0.5
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):23.1
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9013 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)

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