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Northwest Africa 8036
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8036
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8036
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1612 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Eucrite-pmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-pmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 407 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 3 Aug 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8036 (NWA 8036)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Aug

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)

History: Purchased by GHupé in August 2013 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: A group of 21 similar stones (total weight 1612 g) exhibiting weathered exterior surfaces and interiors characterized by separated white clasts with some brown staining in a dark matrix. GHupé has cut every stone and carefully examined their interiors as well as exteriors; together with A. Irving it was concluded they were the same material (and the same as the type specimen)

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fragmental breccia composed of small gabbroic eucrite clasts and matrix of related debris, with rare clasts of diogenitic orthopyroxene. Primary minerals are exsolved pigeonite (with variable red-brown staining), calcic plagioclase (polycrystalline, birefringent), silica polymorph, ilmenite, Ti-bearing chromite and troilite; secondary barite and calcite are present.

Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs58.2Wo3.9, FeO/MnO =30), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs28.4Wo41.4, FeO/MnO = 30), diogenitic orthopyroxene (Fs17.0Wo1.1, FeO/MnO =29; Fs35.4Wo1.2, FeO/MnO = 38).

Classification: Eucrite (polymict, gabbroic). Based on primary textures, shock features and style of weathering, these stones are likely paired with NWA 7989.

Specimens: A total of 25.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB. The remaining material is held by GHupé.

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2013 Aug
Mass (g):1612
Pieces:21
Class:Eucrite-pmict
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:moderate
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):25.2
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:G. Hupe
Comments:GH-455. .; 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)
GHupé: Gregory M. Hupé, 9003 Placid Lakes Blvd., Lake Placid, FL 33852, United States; Website (private address)
Hupe: (old address—now see GHupé or AHupé) G. and A. Hupe, 2616 Lake Youngs Court SE, Renton, WA 98058., United States (private address)
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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.

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