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Northwest Africa 2379
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 2379
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 2379
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 68 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  Howardite
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Howardite
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
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Northwest Africa 2379

Northwest Africa

Purchased 2004 August

Achondrite (howardite)

A 68 g stone with fusion crust was purchased in Erfoud, Morocco. Description and classification (T. Bunch and J. Wittke, NAU): an unusual howardite that contains an array of plastically deformed shocked eucrite and diogenite clasts. Shock characteristics range from crushed cataclastics (S2-4), maskelynite-bearing (S4), recrystallized pyroxenes and plagioclase (S5) to melt clasts (S6) that contain olivine as the quenched mafic phase in place of typical pyroxenes. Diogenites: orthopyroxene, Fs25.0Wo2.9 (FeO/MnO = 29.4); plagioclase, An88.8; chromite, cr# = 76, mg# = 24. Eucrites:  orthopyroxene, Fs47.8-61.4Wo1.4-2.3 (FeO/MnO = 31.2-36); pigeonite, Fs51.3-56.8Wo7.7-12.6; augite, Fs27Wo28.1; plagioclase, An86.4-91.1. Quench olivine (<0.05 mm in diameter): cores, Fa17.9; rims, Fa36.4 (FeO/MnO = 41-47); low weathering grade. Specimens: type specimen, 13 g, NAU; main mass, GHupé.

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 7
  Line 220:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:2004
Mass (g):68
Pieces:1
Class:How
Classifier:Ted Bunch, NAU
Type spec mass (g):13.6
Type spec location:NAU
Main mass:Hupé
Comments:see separate entry
Institutions
   and collections		 NAU: Geology, Bldg 12 Knoles Dr Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Apr 2012)
GHupé: Gregory M. Hupé, 9003 Placid Lakes Blvd., Lake Placid, FL 33852, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Don Edwards   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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