header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Northwest Africa 4804
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 4804
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 4804
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 69.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2062 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 7 May 2010
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 1
  Line 26:
Place of purchase:e-bay
Date:P 2007
Mass (g):69.9 g
Pieces:1
Class:L4
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):22.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):14.6
Wollastonite (mol%):2.1
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):14.73
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Kkessel
Finder:KKessell
Comments:Submitted by Alan Rubin
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)
KKessel: Mr. Kevin Kessel, Meteorite Plus, 785 Railroad Bed Pike, Summertown, TN 3843, United States (private address; updated 24 May 2010)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
Also see:
  This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.
Revision
  history:
  This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page