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Northwest Africa 6032
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6032
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6032
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 40.2 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  Eucrite-pmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-pmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 408 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 17 Oct 2021
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Northwest Africa 6032 (NWA 6032)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2009

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer on the meteorite fair in Ensisheim, France.

Physical characteristics: Grayish rock with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite displays a fresh grayish interior and is a polymict breccia composed of up to 1.3 mm sized basaltic and mineral clasts in a more fine-grained clastic matrix. Main minerals are exsolved pyroxene, compositionally zoned low-Ca pyroxene, and calcic plagioclase. Minor phases include silica, chromite, FeS, and ilmenite. No metallic iron was found. Contains some shock melt veins.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs47.9±0.5Wo2.1±0.3 (Fs46.8-48.6Wo1.7-2.7, FeO/MnO=28-31, n=10); augite exsolution lamellae: Fs19.7±1.3Wo43.6±1.6 (Fs18.0-21.6Wo40.4-45.4, FeO/MnO=25-32, n=12); zoned low-Ca pyroxene: Fs39.2±7.1Wo4.1±1.3 (Fs31.2-47.9Wo1.1-5.2, n=7, FeO/MnO=29-36, n=10); calcic plagioclase: An89.9±1.6 (An88.0-92.1, n=12)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Ensisheim, France
Date:P 2009
Mass (g):40.2
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-pmict
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):47.9; 19.7; 39.2
Wollastonite (mol%):2.1; 43.6; 4.1
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):8.2
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Hanno Strufe
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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