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Northwest Africa 4777

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 4777
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 4777
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 1397 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 93	(2008)	H4
Recommended:			H4 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 6 Mar 2008
Revised 4 Sep 2015: new information

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Updated information submitted by S. Tutorow:

Found 2002. Purchased in Los Angeles, California, 2002. Main mass, S. Tutorow.

Data from:
  MB93
  Table 2
  Line 114:

Place of purchase:	No data
Date:	No data
Mass (g):	1396.6
Pieces:	32
Class:	H4
Shock stage:	S1
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	17.3 ± 0.3
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	261.5
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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Photos:

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rockmeamadeus

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

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

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