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| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6693 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6693 Observed fall: No Year found: 2011 Country: Morocco Mass:  5.1 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 131 approved meteorites classified as Achondrite-ung. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Ungrouped achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 6 May 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 99:
Northwest Africa 6693 (NWA 6693) Morocco Found: March 2010 Classification: Ungrouped achondrite Petrography: The largest pyroxene is poikilitic, 5 mm across, with mainly plagioclase chadacrysts, but pyroxenes with blocky shapes and 1-2 mm maximum dimensions are more common. Olivines are blocky, to 1 mm. Plagioclase is consistently fine-grained and anhedral (interstitial). No chondrules visible. Mineral abundances (vol%) are 70.3 pyroxene, 15.6 olivine, 13.4 plagioclase, 0.6 Cr-spinel, 0.4 Ni-rich metal, ~0.002 Ni-rich sulfide, and trace merrillite. Geochemistry: The silicate compositions cluster tightly near: low-Ca pyx, En57Wo3.3 with FeO/MnO = 90 (not HED, not martian); feldspar, Ab92Or2.5; olivine Fo47-51. The pyroxene in places contains small lamellae, only rarely (where blebby) large enough for EPMA, of En40Wo40 high-Ca pyroxene. Cr-spinel composition is 57.8 wt% Cr2O3, 32.0 wt% FeO, ~2.1 wt% Fe2O3, 2.8 wt% TiO2, 1.7 wt% MgO. The Ni-rich metal is tightly clustered at 81 wt% Ni. O isotopic composition (B-G. Choi and I. Ahn, using CO2 laser-fluorination at Seoul-NU; avg. of 2 similar replicate analyses): δ18O = 4.32‰, δ17O = 1.19‰ and Δ17O = -1.08‰ (per mil). Classification: Ungrouped achondrite. No other achondrite has such ferroan mafic silicates (mg~59 low-Ca pyroxene, Fo~50 olivine) in such high modal abundance. The extremely sodic plagioclase (Ab92) and Ni-rich (81 wt%) metal are also distinctive. Specimens: A 28.4 g type specimen is on deposit at UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB99 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| 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) Seoul-NU: Department of Earth Science Education, Room# 13-426, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 151-748, South Korea (institutional address; updated 20 Dec 2014) Thompson: Edwin Thompson, 5150 Dawn St., Lake Oswego, OR 97035, United States (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
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Statistics: This is 1 of 1973 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 37 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||