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Northwest Africa 8120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 8120 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 8120 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 1840 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 598 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Eucrite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 14 Feb 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Northwest Africa 8120 (NWA 8120) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2013 Feb Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite) History: Purchased in February 2013 by Sergey Vasiliev and Marc Jost from a dealer in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Monomict basaltic eucrite breccia with some cross-cutting black, glassy shock veins. Exsolved pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorph, ilmenite, Ti-chromite, troilite and stained Ni-free metal. Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs60.3-60.5Wo1.9-2.1; FeO/MnO = 30-32), clinopyroxene exsolution lamellae (Fs26.2-27.1Wo43.4-42.7; FeO/MnO = 28-29). Classification: Eucrite (monomict breccia). Specimens: 23.4 g including a polished thin section at UWB. The remainder is held jointly by Mr. S. Vasiliev and Mr. M. Jost. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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