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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:  322 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 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 Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||