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Northwest Africa 6326
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6326
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6326
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 322 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  L(LL)3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites classified as L(LL)3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 19 Mar 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 6326 (NWA 6326)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2010

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L(LL)3)

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

Physical characteristics: Brownish-reddish rock with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a breccia composed of type 3 matrix with well-defined, mostly rounded separated chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.7 mm) and up to 5 mm sized melt rock clasts all set into a fine-grained strongly altered reddish matrix that contains sulfides and weathered metal.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite L(LL)3. The strong terrestrial weathering makes it difficult to assign the meteorite positively to the L group based on magnetic susceptibility, hence the L(LL) classification.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Ensisheim, France
Date:P 2010
Mass (g):322.3
Pieces:1
Class:L(LL)3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3/4
Fayalite (mol%):15.4±10.8 (0.2-33.8, n=18)
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.7±7.0 (1.9-22.9, n=15)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.5±1.5 (0.2-4.3, n=18)
Magnetic suscept.:3.72
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:André Knoefel
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. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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