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Northwest Africa 6070
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6070
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6070
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 276 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  Ureilite
Recommended:  Ureilite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 660 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites
Comments: Approved 24 Aug 2015
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Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 6070 (NWA 6070)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2009

Classification: Ureilite

History: The meteorite was purchased in 2009 from a local meteorite dealer in Agadir, Morocco.

Petrography: The meteorite displays a cumulate texture of blocky mm-sized olivine and augite crystals often showing 120 degree grain boundaries. It contains abundant flaky graphite and olivine shows typical reduced rims.

Geochemistry: Reduced rims in olivine: Fa4.2-9.8; Cr2O3 in ol: ~0.35 wt%

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Agadir, Morocco
Date:P 2009
Mass (g):276
Pieces:1
Class:Ureilite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:moderate
Fayalite (mol%):22±0.2 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.1±0.2 (n=13)
Wollastonite (mol%):34±0.1 (n=13)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.0
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Tomasz Jakubowski
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. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/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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