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Northwest Africa 7124
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 7124
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7124
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 712 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  Eucrite
Recommended:  Eucrite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 598 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Eucrite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 6 Sep 2013
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Writeup from MB 102:

Northwest Africa 7124 (NWA 7124)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2011 Feb

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite)

History: Purchased by Reed in 2011 February from a Moroccan dealer at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fragmental breccia composed mainly of crystal debris derived from gabbroic eucrites (pigeonite, exsolved pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorph, chromite and troilite). Isolated grains of altered metal (kamacite+taenite) associated with Ni-bearing troilite also are present, and the specimen is cross-cut by veinlets of goethite.

Geochemistry: Pigeonite (Fs39.6-39.8Wo11.0-10.5, FeO/MnO = 26-30), orthopyroxene host (Fs48.5Wo2.1, FeO/MnO = 25), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs21.1Wo42.3, FeO/MnO = 28).

Classification: Eucrite. The high content of altered metal is very unusual.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Tucson
Date:P 2011 Feb
Mass (g):712
Pieces:30
Class:Eucrite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):39.6-39.8
Wollastonite (mol%):11.0-10.5
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):26.2
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:B. Reed
Comments:BR 70; 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, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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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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