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Northwest Africa 6067
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6067
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6067
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 205 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  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 23 Jul 2016
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Northwest Africa 6067 (NWA 6067)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2009

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)

History: The meteorite was bought in 2009 from a local meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Petrography: The meteorite is a fresh polymict breccia composed of eucrite clasts, melt clast with different quenching textures and mineral fragments embedded in fine grained matrix. Mineral phases are exsolved pyroxene, calcic plagioclase and sparse grains of diogenitic orthopyroxene. Accessories include silica polymorph, ilmenite, chromite, and troilite.

Geochemistry: Pyroxene host to augite lamellae: Fs54.0±3.1Wo2.8±0.9 (Fs50.9-57.8Wo1.8-4.0, n=10, FeO/MnO=35-41); Ca-pyroxene: Fs24.9±2.2Wo41.6±1.1 (Fs22.3-27.6Wo39.3-43.7, n=15, FeO/MnO=26-33); diogenitic pyroxene: Fs28.8±3.1Wo3.5±0.6 (Fs25.3-34.1Wo2.7-4.7, n=13, FeO/MnO=32-45); calcic plagioclase: An89.0±3.3 (An81.4-92.4, n=12)

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2009
Mass (g):205
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-pmict
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Peter Marmet
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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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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