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Northwest Africa 2626
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 2626
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 2626
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 31.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  Martian (basaltic shergottite)
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Shergottite-basaltic (ol phyric)
Recommended:  Martian (shergottite)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 298 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as Martian (shergottite).   [show all]
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Writeup from MB 89:

Northwest Africa 2626

Northwest Africa

Purchased 2004 November

Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite)

A 31.07 g completely crusted stone was purchased by MFarmer.  Classification and mineralogy (J. Wittke and T. Bunch, NAU; A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS): olivine-orthopyroxene-phyric basaltic rock composed of euhedral to subhedral olivine phenocrysts and preferentially-oriented, prismatic low-Ca pyroxene phenocrysts in a groundmass of zoned pigeonite (Fs26.4Wo12.4 to Fs34.1Wo12.4) FeO/MnO = 27-31; maskelynite (An66.0-71.0Or0.4), olivine (Fa43.6-47.3) FeO/MnO = 51-58; Ti-chromite (Cr/(Cr+Al) = 0.72-0.79; 9.2-19.8 wt. % TiO2), chromite (Cr/(Cr+Al) = 0.71-0.86; 0.7-2.0 wt. % TiO2), merrillite, ilmenite, ulvöspinel and pyrrhotite.  Olivine phenocrysts are zoned from Fa16.7 cores to Fa43.3 rims, and pyroxene phenocrysts have irregular cores of orthopyroxene (as magnesian as Fs17.9Wo2.4, with ~0.03 wt. % TiO2 and ~0.4 wt. % Al2O3) mantled by pigeonite (Fs25.4Wo4.4 to Fs37.0Wo12.7) with minor subcalcic augite (Fs21.7-24.0Wo 30.8-31.1). It is apparently not terrestrially paired to NWA 1195 and NWA 2046 (Irving et al., 2004b; 2005). Specimens: type specimen, 6.4 g, and one polished thin section, NAU; one polished thin section, UWS; main mass, Anonymous.

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 7
  Line 344:
Origin or pseudonym:Algeria
Date:2004
Mass (g):31.07
Pieces:1
Class:Martian
Institutions
   and collections
NAU: Geology, Bldg 12 Knoles Dr Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Apr 2012)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
MFarmer: Michael Farmer, P.O. Box 86059, Tucson, AZ 85754-6059, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Mike Farmer   
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Anthony James   
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MeteoriteCollector.org - FCOM - Russ Finney   
Michael S. Scherman   
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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