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Northwest Africa 6325

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 6325
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6325
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 34.7 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 102	(2013)	Eucrite-pmict
Recommended:			Eucrite-pmict [explanation]

This is 1 of 409 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all]
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Comments:

Approved 10 Dec 2013

Writeup

Writeup from MB 102:

Northwest Africa 6325 (NWA 6325)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2009

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)

Petrography: (A. Greshake, MNB) The grayish to light brownish colored rock consists of abundant clastic matrix supporting larger lithic and minerals clasts. Eucritic clasts show typical basaltic textures with lath-shaped plagioclase and exsolved pyroxene. Subrounded melt clast appears black in the bright matrix. Minor phases are chromite, FeNi metal and SiO₂ polymorphs.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs_51.8-55.6Wo_2.4-5.8; Ca-pyroxene Fs_24.9-47.9Wo_14.7-43.2; calcic plagioclase An_81.7-94.2

Data from:
  MB102
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Place of purchase:	Ensisheim, France
Date:	P 2009
Mass (g):	34.71
Pieces:	1
Class:	Eucrite-pmict
Shock stage:	low
Weathering grade:	moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):	51.8-55.6; 24.9-47.9
Wollastonite (mol%):	2.4-5.8; 14.7-43.2
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	9
Type spec location:	MNB
Main mass:	Mr. André Knoefel, Am Observatorium 2, 15848 Lindenberg, Germany
Comments:	AKM 2009-005; 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. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015

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Photos:

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Andreas Grünemeyer

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)

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