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Northwest Africa 5777
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 5777
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5777
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2008
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 581 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11505 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 1 Feb 2013
Data from:
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Place of purchase:Tucson
Date:P February 2008
Mass (g):581.1
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.7
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9
Classifier:Rubin/Bunch/Wittke
Type spec mass (g):22.3
Type spec location:PSF/UCLA
Main mass:Reed
Finder:unknown
Comments:Submitted by Sipiera
Institutions
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PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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