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Northwest Africa 6869
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6869
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6869
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 119 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H3.9
Recommended:  H3.9    [explanation]

This is 1 of 44 approved meteorites classified as H3.9.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 6 Sep 2013
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Writeup from MB 102:

Northwest Africa 6869 (NWA 6869)

Northwest Africa

Purchased: 2009 Jun

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3.9)

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Well-formed, small (to 0.55 mm) chondrules in a sparse, fine-grained, dark matrix. Minerals are olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, sodic plagioclase, chromite, kamacite and troilite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa16.7-18.5, Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine < 0.02 wt.%), orthopyroxene (Fs8.5-23.1Wo0.1-2.9, Fs44.5Wo3.5), clinopyroxene (Fs17.2-19.5Wo36.7-36.3).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3.9). Subtype estimated to be 3.9 based on undetectable Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine, fine-grained matrix, and narrow range in Fa.

Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Taliouine
Date:P 2009 Jun
Mass (g):119
Pieces:1
Class:H3.9
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):16.7-18.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):8.5-23.1
Wollastonite (mol%):0.1-2.9
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21.3
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:J. Higgins
Comments:JH11-2; 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)
UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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