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Northwest Africa 8567
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8567
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8567
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 6.6 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8890 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 3 Oct 2014
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Writeup from MB 103:

Northwest Africa 8567 (NWA 8567)

(Northwest Africa)

Found: 2013

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5)

History: Found in Morocco 2013, purchased in Erfoud, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Single stone with weathered exterior and regmaglypts. Saw cut reveals chondrules and opaques set in a dark groundmass.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Microprobe examination of a polished mount reveals numerous equilibrated chondrules, plagioclase <50 μm, Fe-Ni metal, troilite, chromite, merrillite, Cl-rich apatite, some iron-oxide veinlets.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee and N. Muttik, UNM) Olivine Fa25.8±0.5, Fe/Mn=51±4, n=11; low-Ca pyroxene Fs21.8±0.7Wo1.6±0.2, Fe/Mn=30±2, n=8.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite L5, W2, S3.

Specimens: 43.4 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, B. Caress holds the main mass.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Erfoud, Morocco
Date:2013
Mass (g):6600
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):25.8±0.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.8±0.7
Wollastonite (mol%):1.6±0.2
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):43.4
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Brian Caress
Comments:Field name DG-5; submitted by C. Agee, UNM
Institutions
   and collections		 UNM: Institute of Meteoritics MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015)
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 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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