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Northwest Africa 6477 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6477 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6477 Observed fall: No Year found: 2010 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 385 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 279 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 22 Aug 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 101:
Northwest Africa 6477 (NWA 6477) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2010 Feb Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict) Petrography: Fresh specimen with fine-grained ophitic texture. Basaltic eucrite breccia with numerous small ophitic-textured clasts and related debris (plus minor stained metal). Pyroxene compositions consistent with a monomict breccia derived from a single basaltic eucrite protolith. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB101 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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