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Northwest Africa 4772
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 4772
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 4772
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 9.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 93  (2008)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8890 approved meteorites (plus 5 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)
Comments: Approved 6 Mar 2008
Revised 4 Sep 2015: New information
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 104:
Updated information submitted by S. Tutorow:

Found 2002, 7 fragments. Purchased in Los Angeles, California, 2002.  3.85 g held by S. Tutorow, 3.10 g held by John Meltzer.
Data from:
  MB93
  Table 2
  Line 109:
Place of purchase:No data
Date:No data
Mass (g):9.7
Pieces:Fragments
Class:L5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):23.5 ± 0.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.5
Wollastonite (mol%):1
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):2.12
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:DGregory
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)
DGregory: David Gregory, 230 First Avenue, Suite 108, St. Thomas, Ontario N5R 4P5, Canada (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 93, MAPS 43, 571-632 (2008)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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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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