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Northwest Africa 7098 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 7098 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 7098 Observed fall: No Year found: 2011 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 48 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 407 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 31 May 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 100:
Northwest Africa 7098 (NWA 7098) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2011 Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict) Petrography: Fresh, brecciated specimen composed of lithic and mineral clasts set in a clastic matrix; lithic clasts include basaltic clasts and dark impact melt fragments; mineral clasts are dominantly large plagioclase and exsolved pyroxenes. Contains accessory ilmenite and troilite. Geochemistry: low Ca-pyroxene Fs59.7 (59.3-60.1) Wo1.8 (1.4-2.6), Fe/Mn=30-32; high Ca-pyroxene Fs25.5 (24.2-26.4) Wo43.5 (42.5-44.3), Fe/Mn=28-30; plagioclase An91.9 (88.2-93.3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB100 Table 1 Line 1626: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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