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Northwest Africa 5023

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 5023
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5023
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 549 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 93	(2008)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 11372 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [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

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Updated information submitted by S. Tutorow: Main mass, S. Tutorow.

Data from:
  MB93
  Table 2
  Line 188:

Place of purchase:	Los Angeles, CA
Date:	April 2002
Mass (g):	548.6
Pieces:	111
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W5
Fayalite (mol%):	18.5 ± 0.4
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	35
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.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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