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Northwest Africa 6384 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6384 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6384 Observed fall: No Year found: 2010 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 52 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Pallasite, PMG. [show all] Search for other: Main group pallasites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Pallasites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 4 Dec 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 6384 (NWA 6384) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2010 Jun Classification: Pallasite (Main group) Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Subrounded olivine grains with sizes up to 1.5 cm, embedded in ~50 vol% iron oxides / hydroxides, which also occur as crosscutting veins in olivine. No unaltered Fe-Ni metal has been found. Schreibersite grains up to 800 μm occur. Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: Mean olivine composition: Fa13.9±0.3 (Fa13.3-14.3); n=8. Classification: Pallasite (main group), based on texture, grain size of olivine and olivine composition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB111 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012) |
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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 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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