Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 5277

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Northwest Africa 5277

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 5277
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5277
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 556 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 100	(2012)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 810 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 17 May 2012

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1212:

Place of purchase:	Baden, Austria
Date:	P 2007
Mass (g):	556
Pieces:	1
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	0.8-29.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):	2.4-19.4
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	25.2
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)

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Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9092 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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