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Northwest Africa 8235
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8235
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8235
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 140 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Eucrite-mmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-mmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 281 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 7 Mar 2014
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Northwest Africa 8235 (NWA 8235)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict)

Petrography: The meteorite consists of fine- and coarse-grained basaltic clasts and less abundant dark melt clasts set into a fine-grained clastic groundmass. Mineral fragments are dominantly calcic plagioclase and pyroxene with very fine exsolution lamellae. Minor phases include SiO2 polymorphs, chromite, and pyrrhotite.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs28.6-48.8 Wo4.6-9.4, FeO/MnO=25-31; Ca-pyroxene: Fs31.3-41.2 Wo27-31, FeO/MnO=27-30; calcic plagioclase: An83.4-93.9

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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:P 2013
Mass (g):140
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-mmict
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.6-48.8; 31.3-41.2
Wollastonite (mol%):4.6-9.4; 27-31
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Harald Stehlik
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Stehlik: Harald Stehlik, 1220 Wien, Austria (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 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
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