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Northwest Africa 5458
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 5458
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5458
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 5.2 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 30 Jun 2011
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1247:
State/Prov/County:Morocco
Date:Sept 2006
Mass (g):5200
Pieces:many
Class:L6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.2±0.3
Classifier:Alan Rubin
Type spec mass (g):24
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Tom Phillips
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)
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 25 approved meteorites from Morocco, (Northwest Africa)
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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