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Northwest Africa 989
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 989
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 989
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 146 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  CV3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  CV3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  CV3
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 619 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 91:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 1 Aug 2001
Mass (g):146
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):5.1 ± 4.5
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):20.34
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:purchaser
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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Gerald Armstrong   
jean bernard Delbauve   
MeteoriteCollector.org - FCOM - Russ Finney      
Mirko Graul   
Robert Zdancewicz   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9344 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1872 unapproved names)

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