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Northwest Africa 7962
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 7962
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7962
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 110.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 20 Jul 2013
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Writeup from MB 102:

Northwest Africa 7962 (NWA 7962)

(Northwest Africa)

Found: Jan 2011

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

History: One crusted stone weighing 110.3 g was found and purchased in Agadir in 2013. Greg Catterton acquired the sample from a meteorite prospector in 2013.

Physical characteristics: Dark brown fusion crust fusion crust covers 99% of the flattened, ellipsoidal stone.

Petrography: (A. Love, App): Sample is mottled light orange to blackish brown in color and displays a chondritic texture composed of well-defined chondrules (mean diameter 534 μm) and fragments set within a fine-grained recrystallized matrix with interstitial metal grains to 277 μm and sulfides to 208 μm.

Geochemistry: (A.Love, App) Fa18.6±0.3, n=19, Low-Ca pyroxene Fs16.0±0.2Wo1.6±0.6, n=8, An39.1 n=1.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5, S3, W2)

Specimens: 20.85 g and 1 polished thin section are on deposit at App.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Agadir
Date:Jan 2011
Mass (g):110.3
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.6±0.3 (n=19)
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.0±0.2 (n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.6±0.6
Classifier:A. Love, App
Type spec mass (g):20.85
Type spec location:App
Main mass:Greg Catterton
Finder:Anonymous
Comments:Submitted by Anthony Love
Institutions
   and collections		 App: Department of Geology, 572 Rivers St., Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, United States (institutional address; updated 7 Mar 2013)
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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