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Northwest Africa 8052
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8052
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8052
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 102 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Ureilite
Recommended:  Ureilite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 623 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Ureilites
Comments: Approved 14 Feb 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8052 (NWA 8052)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Apr

Classification: Ureilite

History: Purchased in April 2013 by Andreas Gren from a dealer in Sidi Ifni, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Protogranular aggregate of olivine and pigeonite. Olivine grains have unusually thick, dark reduced rims consisting of dispersed Fe metal plus very magnesian olivine.

Geochemistry: Olivine (cores Fa23.5-23.6 cores, rims Fa2.2), pigeonite (Fs19.3-19.4Wo7.3-7.9).

Classification: Ureilite.

Specimens: 21 g including a polished thick section at UWB. The remainder is held by Gren.

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Sidi Ifni
Date:P 2013 Apr
Mass (g):102
Pieces:3
Class:Ureilite
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):23.5-23.6; 2.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.3-19.4
Wollastonite (mol%):7.3-7.9
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:A. Gren
Comments:AG011; 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, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
Gren: Andreas Gren, Hamburg, Germany (private address)
Catalogs:
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 9013 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)

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