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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 7811 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 7811 Observed fall: No Year found: 2011 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 95 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 408 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 6 Sep 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Northwest Africa 7811 (NWA 7811) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2011 Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict) History: Purchased by J. Redelsperger in 2011 from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fresh fragmental breccia composed mainly of crystal debris from several different basaltic eucrite and gabbroic eucrite protoliths (with some polymineralic clasts of same), plus sparse clasts of diogenite and diogenitic orthopyroxene. Minerals include exsolved pigeonite, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorph, ilmenite, troilite, chromite, and fayalite. Geochemistry: Diogenitic orthopyroxene (Fs24.1Wo1.5; FeO/MnO = 34), orthopyroxene (Fs49.9Wo2.5; FeO/MnO = 31), clinopyroxene (Fs20.8-25.8Wo45.1-44.6; FeO/MnO = 32-35), host orthopyroxene (Fs61.6Wo1.8; FeO/MnO = 34), clinopyroxene exsolution lamellae (Fs21.6Wo43.8; FeO/MnO = 34), olivine (Fa92.7). Classification: Eucrite (polymict breccia). Specimens: 19.1 g of material and one polished thin section are on deposit at UWB. J. Redelsperger holds the main mass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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