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Northwest Africa 5748 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 5748 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 5748 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 37 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 4 Jul 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 102:
Northwest Africa 5748 (NWA 5748) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2008 Dec 12 Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite) Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Fine-grained breccia consisting of small subophitic and gabbroic eucrite clasts and eucritic and diogenitic mineral fragments. Clasts of fragment-rich and fragment-poor impact melt rocks occur, some of which are glassy. Isolated glass spherules are also present. An90.5±4.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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