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Northwest Africa 4889

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 4889
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 4889
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2005
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 420 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 108	(2020)	Mesosiderite
Recommended:			Mesosiderite [explanation]

This is 1 of 240 approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite. [show all]
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Comments:

Approved 12 Mar 2019

Writeup

Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 4889 (NWA 4889)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2005

Classification: Mesosiderite

History: The meteorite was purchased in 2005 from a local meteorite dealer in Zagora, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Fourteen dark-brownish fragments without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a breccia composed of silicate and metallic regions of highly variable portions. The metallic lithology consists of kamacite and taenite, the silica fraction is dominated by up to 2 µm sized low-Ca pyroxene, less abundant olivine, calcic plagioclase and minor silica and merrillite. Pyroxene often shows compositional zoning.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa_9.2±0.7(Fa_8.2-10.6, n=20, FeO/MnO=32-47); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs_34.6±3.9Wo_7.0±2.0(Fs_30.0-40.6Wo_4.9-10.8, n=15, FeO/MnO=20-25); calcic plagioclase: An_93.5±0.3(An_93.0-94.0, n=15)

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:

Place of purchase:	Zagora, Morocco
Date:	P 2005
Mass (g):	420
Pieces:	14
Class:	Mesosiderite
Shock stage:	low
Weathering grade:	low
Fayalite (mol%):	9.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):	34.6
Wollastonite (mol%):	7
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	20.3
Type spec location:	MNB
Main mass:	Stefan Ralew
Comments:	Submitted by Ansgar Greshake

Institutions
and collections

MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Ralew: Stefan Ralew, Kunibertstraße 29, 12524 Berlin, Germany; Website (private address)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
André Knöfel
Dirk Hohmann

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9013 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)

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