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Northwest Africa 5749 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 5749 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 5749 Observed fall: No Year found: 2008 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 165 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites classified as LL4-6. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 15 Oct 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Northwest Africa 5749 (NWA 5749) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2008 Dec 12 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL4-6) History: Purchased from a Moroccan dealer at the mineral fair (CCH) in Hamburg, Germany. Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Genomict breccia, consisting of LL4 clasts and LL6 clasts, embedded in related fine-grained clastic material. Contains melt rock clasts. Geochemistry: Olivine compositions from type 4 and type 6 clasts are indistinguishable. Low-Ca pyroxene in type 6 clasts: 26.0±0.8, n=9; Low-Ca pyroxene in type 4 clasts: Fs22.8±2.1, n=8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB105 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. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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