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Northwest Africa 6501

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 6501
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6501
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 93 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 101	(2012)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 4 Oct 2012

Writeup

Writeup from MB 101:

Northwest Africa 6501 (NWA 6501)

Morocco/Algeria

Purchased: Feb 2009

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

Petrography: Chondrules average about 600 μm in diameter. Chondrule glass lacking. Many pyroxene grains exhibit polysynthetic twins. Possibly paired with NWA 5205.

Data from:
  MB101
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:	Purchased from G. Hupe
Date:	P Feb 2009
Mass (g):	93
Pieces:	1
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	22.9±4.5 (n=6)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	21.0
Wollastonite (mol%):	2.3 (n=3)
Classifier:	A.E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	19.77
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	JUtas
Finder:	anonymous
Comments:	Submitted by JUtas

Institutions
and collections

UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
JUtas: Jason Utas, United States (private address; updated 8 Jun 2010)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015

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Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)

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