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Northwest Africa 995
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 995
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 995
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 223 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  L5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8597 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB88
  Table 4
  Line 3:
Origin or pseudonym:Erfoud, Morocco
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Jun 2001
Mass (g):222.9
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):24.6 ± 0.5
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):28.9
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Comments:breccia; purchased by Verish from Bessey
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)
Bessey: Dean Bessey ,P.O. Box 40810, Glenfield, Auckland 1310 , New Zealand; Website (private address)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9092 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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