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Northwest Africa 7541
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 7541
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7541
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 844 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  L3-6
Recommended:  L3-6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 62 approved meteorites classified as L3-6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 23 Jun 2014
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Northwest Africa 7541 (NWA 7541)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2010

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3-6)

Physical characteristics: Single angular stone of medium brown color without fusion crust. One dark melt-rock clast with a size 3.5 cm protrudes from the interior

Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Well preserved chondrules (apparent sizes mainly between 300 and 800 µm) and metal grains set in a fine-grained clastic matrix. Several chondrules and mineral fragments show relict igneous zoning in olivine and pyroxene crystals. One chondritic clast of type L6 was observed. The large melt rock clast consists of crystallized melt, intermixed with olivine and pyroxene fragments

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Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2010
Mass (g):844
Pieces:1
Class:L3-6
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):24.2±3.7 (7-32; n=33)
Ferrosilite (mol%):18.±3.9 (5-22; n=24)
Classifier:K. Metzler, IfP
Type spec mass (g):21
Type spec location:IfP
Main mass:Anonymous
Comments:Submitted by K. Metzler, IfP
Institutions
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IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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