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Northwest Africa 6920
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6920
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6920
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1468 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  Howardite
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
Comments: Approved 29 Nov 2011
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Writeup from MB 100:

Northwest Africa 6920 (NWA 6920)

Northwest Africa

Purchased: Mar 2011

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

Petrography: Breccia containing distinctive yellowish diogenite clasts, and calcic plagioclase has been partly to totally converted by shock to maskelynite. Relatively coarse-grained basaltic eucrite clasts and related debris are subordinate to diogenite clasts (of several types ranging up to unusually ferroan orthopyroxene compositions) plus related debris. Accessory minerals include chromite, silica polymorph, ilmenite and troilite. This specimen appears to be paired with NWA 6709.

Geochemistry: Diogenite orthopyroxene Fs38.4-38.9Wo2.9-2.3, Fs29.5Wo1.5, Fs22.6Wo1.1 (FeO/MnO=30-36), host orthopyroxene Fs47.6Wo2.1, FeO/MnO=30), augite exsolution lamellae Fs16.3-17.6Wo42.7-42.5, FeO/MnO=26-27.

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1540:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Mar 2011
Mass (g):1468
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):22.6-38.9
Wollastonite (mol%):1.1-2.9
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21.5
Type spec location:UWS
Main mass:A. Hmani
Comments:Submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
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UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
Hmani: A. Hmani Moroccan Imports, 13 rue Jules Hardouin Mansart, 92600 Asnières, France (private address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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