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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: 322 g

Classification
history:

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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

Writeup

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
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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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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
André Knöfel
Mirko Graul

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

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

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