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Northwest Africa 926
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 926
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 926
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 201 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 6459 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 75:
Place of purchase:M'hamid
Date:P Jun 2001
Mass (g):201
Pieces:3
Class:H4
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.7
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):21.2
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Hupé
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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jean bernard Delbauve   
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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