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Northwest Africa 7984
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 7984
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 7984
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1178 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13053 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 16 Jun 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show
Date:P 23 Jun 2012
Mass (g):1178
Pieces:4
Class:L6
Shock stage:S5
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.0±0.6 (N=62)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.5±0.6 (N=33)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.3±03 (N=33)
Classifier:T. Onuma, T. Noguchi, and M. Kimura, Ibaraki
Type spec mass (g):27.8
Type spec location:NMNS
Main mass:HM
Comments:Heavily shocked L6. Thick melt veins with ringwoodite and majorite.; submitted by Makoto Kimura
Institutions
   and collections		 NMNS: National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, JAPAN, Japan; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jun 2014)
Ibaraki: Department of Materials and Biological Sciences, Institute of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011)
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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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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9921 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1838 unapproved names)

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