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Northwest Africa 2625
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 2625
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 2625
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 305 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  Ureilite
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Ureilite
Recommended:  Ureilite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 658 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites
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Writeup from MB 89:

Northwest Africa 2625

Northwest Africa

Purchased 2004 August

Achondrite (ureilite)

A 305 g single stone was purchased in Erfoud, Morocco. Description and classification (J. Wittke and T. Bunch, NAU): medium- to coarse-grained (<4 mm), typical ureilite with pronounced preferred orientation of silicates, which are mostly elongated with curvilinear morphology. Pigeonite shows well-defined twinning; graphite and carbonaceous-metal-silicate-masses tend to cross trend the lineation direction with some small masses poikilitically enclosed by large pigeonite. The degree of olivine–pigeonite reduction is low to moderate. Olivine cores, Fa20.3 (Cr2O3 = 0.72 wt. %), rims are Fa8-10.8 (Cr2O3 = 0.53 wt. %); pigeonite, Fs17.4Wo7.6 (Cr2O3 up to 1.56 wt. %). Weathering is low grade and the shock level is S2. Specimens: type specimen, 22.2 g, NAU; main mass, GHupé.

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 7
  Line 343:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:2004
Mass (g):305
Pieces:1
Class:Ure
Classifier:Ted Bunch, NAU
Type spec mass (g):22.2
Type spec location:NAU
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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Main mass. The Hupe Collection      
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Aeroliths Collection Theodossiou   
Gerald Armstrong   
Rene Schmit   
Woreczko Jan & Wadi   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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