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Northwest Africa 5273
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 5273
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5273
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 142.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  H3
Recommended:  H3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 710 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 12 Feb 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 5273 (NWA 5273)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2006

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3)

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

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock with minor fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a light brownish interior and a chondritic texture with small sharply outlined, mostly rounded and separated chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.4 mm). The fine-grained matrix contains sulfides and abundant FeNi metal partly altered to Fe-oxides and -hydroxides.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P 2006
Mass (g):142.7
Pieces:1
Class:H3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):15.3±9.8 (0.5-30.4, n=26)
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.2±8.7 (0.7-27.3, n=16)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±1.1 (0.3-3.8, n=16)
Magnetic suscept.:4.97
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.6
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Christian Anger
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Anger: Christian Anger, Korngasse 6, 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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