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Northwest Africa 8372
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8372
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8372
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 230 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  Eucrite
Recommended:  Eucrite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 616 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Eucrite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 29 May 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8372 (NWA 8372)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2013

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite)

Petrography: (A. Greshake, MNB): The meteorite shows an overall grayish interior with up to 2-cm sized, often more brownish colored, fragments. It is composed of various basaltic lithologies with different textures and grain sizes embedded in a fine-grained clastic matrix. Dominant mineral phases are low-Ca pyroxene, Ca-pyroxene, and calcic feldspar; pyroxenes are often exsolved. Minor phases include chromite and SiO2 polymorphs.

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene: Fs41.6±9.6Wo5.3±1.2 (range Fs29.4-54.6Wo1.8-7.4, n=22), FeO/MnO=26-37; Ca-pyroxene: Fs36.2±6.5Wo37.9±1.9 (range Fs29.1-47Wo32.2-41.7, n=18), FeO/MnO=30-34; calcic plagioclase: An90.3±3.8 (range An81.3-93.7, n=20)

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2013
Mass (g):230
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):29.4-54.6, 29.1-47
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8-7.4, 32.2-41.7
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.0
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Marcin Cimala
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
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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