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Northwest Africa 8055
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8055
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8055
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 98 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 336 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 10 Jan 2014
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Northwest Africa 8055 (NWA 8055)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Sep

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Purportedly found near Boujdour and purchased in Agadir, Morocco, by Adam Aaronson in September 2013.

Physical characteristics: A single stone (98 g) broken into three pieces that fit together. Small white clasts are visible in a dark gray matrix.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia consisting of numerous mineral fragments and rare ophitic-textured, basalt clasts in a finer grained matrix. Minerals are anorthite, olivine, unexsolved pigeonite, subcalcic augite, augite, exsolved pigeonite, ilmenite, Ti-rich chromite, troilite, and rare kamacite and barite. Sparse clasts composed of intergrown fayalite+hedenbergite+silica polymorph are present.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa19.8-38.8, FeO/MnO = 86-105), pigeonite (Fs47.0Wo19.6, FeO/MnO = 59), subcalcic augite (Fs39.9Wo33.2, FeO/MnO = 58), augite (Fs52.0Wo41.9, FeO/MnO = 74). Bulk composition (R. Korotev, WUSL) INAA of subsamples gave (in wt.%) FeO 5.9, Na2O 0.42, and (in ppm) Sc 14.8, La 1.9, Sm 0.98, Eu 0.93, Yb 1.0, Th 0.2.

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic fragmental breccia).

Specimens: 19.6 g (including a polished end-cut specimen and a polished mount) are at UWB. The remainder is held by Aaronson.

Data from:
  MB103
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Place of purchase:Temara
Date:P 2013 Sep
Mass (g):98
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):19.8-38.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):47
Wollastonite (mol%):19.6
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):19.6
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:A. Aaronson
Comments:M1580; 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)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Aaronson: Sahara Overland Ltd., Harhora, Temara, 12000, Morocco (private address; updated 3 Jan 2010)
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.

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     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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