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Northwest Africa 8222
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8222
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8222
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 209 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 343 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
Search for other: Lunar meteorites
Comments: Approved 15 Nov 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8222 (NWA 8222)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013 Dec

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: The stone was purportedly found near Bir Anzarane, and was purchased in Temara, Morocco, by Adam Aaronson in December 2013.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia consisting of separated, angular mineral clasts in a finer-grained, vesicular matrix. Minerals are olivine, anorthite, exsolved pigeonite, augite, chromite, ilmenite, troilite and minor pentlandite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa42.5; Fa80.6; FeO/MnO = 106-134), augite (Fs18.4Wo40.6; FeO/MnO = 54), pigeonite consists of host orthopyroxene (Fs50.1-50.9Wo2.5-5.1; FeO/MnO = 58-64) with exsolution lamellae of augite (Fs38.6Wo41.2; FeO/MnO = 67). Bulk composition (R. Korotev, WUSL) INAA of subsamples gave the following mean abundances (in wt.%) FeO 3.7, Na2O 0.37; (in ppm) Sc 7.0, Ni 90, La 1.4, Sm 0.62, Eu 0.82, Yb 0.54, Lu 0.076, Hf 0.43, Th 0.20.

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic fragmental breccia).

Specimens: A 20.1 g specimen with one polished surface is at UWB. The main mass is held by Aaronson.

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
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Origin or pseudonym:Bir Anzarane
Place of purchase:Temara
Date:P 2013 Dec
Mass (g):208.6
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):42.5; 80.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):18.4
Wollastonite (mol%):40.6
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):20.1
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:A. Aaronson
Comments:M1633; 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.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names)

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