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Northwest Africa 6725
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6725
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6725
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 32.6 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  CM2
Recommended:  CM2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 636 approved meteorites classified as CM2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 31 Jan 2012
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Northwest Africa 6725 (NWA 6725)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: Jan 2011

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CM2)

Petrography: Small chondrules and mineral fragments set within a black to dark red-brown matrix consisting mainly of intergrown cronstedtite+tochilinite with pentlandite, kamacite, and troilite.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa0.3-70.0; Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine is ~0.45 wt.%), orthopyroxene Fs1.1-11.4Wo2.6-1.0, clinopyroxene Fs1.1-1.7Wo39.2-35.4.

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1499:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Jan 2011
Mass (g):32.64
Pieces:4
Class:CM2
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):0.3-70.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.1-11.4
Wollastonite (mol%):2.6-1.0
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):6.6
Type spec location:UWS
Main mass:M. Cimala
Comments:Submitted by A. Irving
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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