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Northwest Africa 4414
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 4414
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 4414
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1304 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  CV3
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 499 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 6 Oct 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 4414 (NWA 4414)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2006 Jan

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

History: Purchased by Greg Hupe in January 2006 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and J. Boesenberg, BrownU; T. Bunch and J. Wittke, NAU) Relatively large, well-formed chondrules (apparent diameter 1110±860 µm, N = 24; some with concentric rims) and irregularly shaped, fine-grained CAI are set in a finer grained matrix (~25 vol.%, red-brown in thin section).

Geochemistry: Olivine, Fa14.7±23.6 (range Fa2.2-62.7, N = 6); orthopyroxene, Fs0.7±0.4Wo1.0±0.2 (range Fs0.2-1.0Wo0.7-1.1, N = 3).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3).

Specimens: 22.7 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with GHupé.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2006 Jan
Mass (g):1304
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:moderate
Fayalite (mol%):14.7±23.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):0.7±0.4
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0±0.2
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and J. Boesenberg, BrownU
Type spec mass (g):22.7
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:G. Hupe
Comments:Work name GH-209; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections
NAU: Geology, Bldg 12 Knoles Dr Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Apr 2012)
PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
GHupé: Gregory M. Hupé, 9003 Placid Lakes Blvd., Lake Placid, FL 33852, United States; Website (private address)
Hupe: (old address—now see GHupé or AHupé) G. and A. Hupe, 2616 Lake Youngs Court SE, Renton, WA 98058., United States (private address)
BrownU: Joseph Boesenberg Brown University Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) 324 Brook Street Providence, RI 02912 , United States (institutional address; updated 4 Jan 2024)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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