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Northwest Africa 7009

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 7009
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7009
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 1007 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 101	(2012)	CV3
Recommended:			CV3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 619 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3. [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites

Comments:

Approved 22 Aug 2012

Writeup

Writeup from MB 101:

Northwest Africa 7009 (NWA 7009)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2011 Oct

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

History: Purchased by Jack Schrader from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco, in 2011 October.

Petrography: Separated, mostly granular chondrules with multiple concentric dust rims and sparse fine-grained CAIs set in a brown, partly altered matrix (rich in ferroan olivine). Predominant minerals are olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and rare troilite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_0.6-31.0), orthopyroxene (Fs_1.3Wo_5.0), clinopyroxene (Fs_1.3Wo_38.8; Fs_9.6-32.8Wo_49.8-50.6).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3).

Data from:
  MB101
  Table 0
  Line 0:

Place of purchase:	Agadir
Date:	P 2011 Oct
Mass (g):	1007
Pieces:	1
Class:	CV3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	0.6-31.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):	1.3
Wollastonite (mol%):	5
Classifier:	A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):	25
Type spec location:	UWB
Main mass:	J. Schrader
Comments:	JS11-9; 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)

Catalogs:

References:

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

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Mirko Graul

Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

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

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