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Northwest Africa 6062
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6062
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6062
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 42.6 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  Eucrite-br
Recommended:  Eucrite-br    [explanation]

This is 1 of 237 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-br.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 31 Oct 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 6062 (NWA 6062)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2009

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, brecciated)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a local meteorite dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Dark-grayish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a coarse-grained polymict breccia with lithic (basaltic and black impact melt) clasts up to 1 cm in size and mineral fragments up to 800 µm in size set into a fine-grained mineral matrix. Main minerals are exsolved pyroxene and calcic plagioclase. Minor phases include silica, chromite, FeS, and ilmenite. No metallic iron was found.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs56.2±0.6Wo3.1±0.7 (Fs54.9-56.8Wo2.6-5.1, FeO/MnO=30-32, n=12); Ca-pyroxene: Fs25.9±2.2Wo41.5±2.5 (Fs23.5-31.0Wo36.0-43.6, FeO/MnO=27-33, n=12); calcic plagioclase: An88.8±2.3 (An82.3-91.0, n=13)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P 2009
Mass (g):42.6
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-br
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):56.2; 25.9
Wollastonite (mol%):3.1; 41.5
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):8.6
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Fabien Kuntz
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
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