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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: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names) |