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Northwest Africa 8073 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 8073 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 8073 Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 68 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 709 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 6 Jan 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Northwest Africa 8073 (NWA 8073) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2012 Jun 30 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3) Petrography: The overall brownish rock is composed of small, well defined chondrules (mean diameter about 0.3 mm) set into a more fine-grained brownish to reddish matrix. FeNi metal is fairly abundant although often altered to Fe-oxides. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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