header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 24 Apr 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Northwest Africa 7844
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 7844
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7844
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 32 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 29 May 2013
Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2012
Mass (g):32
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):20.3±10.3 (0.9-29.3, n=23)
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.9±7.2 (2.3-23.6, n=38)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):6.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Tomasz Jakubowski
Comments:Mean chondrule diameter is about 0.4 mm; metal is strongly weathered.; submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
Also see:
  This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.
Revision
  history:
  This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page