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Northwest Africa 8718
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 8718
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 8718
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 98 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 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 Jan 2015
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Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 8718 (NWA 8718)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

History: One subrounded stone weighing 98 g was found in Morocco in 2014. David Holden acquired the sample from a meteorite prospector in Erfoud, 2014.

Physical characteristics: The stone is brown and has a rounded shape displaying several small, shallow regmaglypts. There is no relict fusion crust remaining on the exterior. A prominant shock vein is visible on the outer surface. The cut face of the interior of the stone is orangish-brown and shows chondrules, clasts and fresh flakes of metal.

Petrography: Description and classification (A. Love, App): Sample displays recrystallized chondritic texture crosscut by glassy, ringwoodite-bearing shock veins. Few chondrules are defined yet have maskelynitized mesostasis and have an average diameter of 1154 μm. Sample contains maskelynite and troilite showing strong polycrystallinity.

Geochemistry: (A.Love, App) Fa25.4±0.3, N=18; Low Ca pyroxene Fs21.8±0.4Wo2.3±0.3, N=12.

Classification: Ordinary Chondrite (L6, S6, W2).

Specimens: Two slices weighing 23.34 g and a polished thin section are currently on deposit at App.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2014
Mass (g):98
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S6
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):25.4±0.3 (N=18)
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.8±0.4 (N=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):2.3±0.3
Classifier:A. Love, App
Type spec mass (g):23.34
Type spec location:App
Main mass:David Holden
Finder:Anonymous
Comments:Submitted by Anthony Love
Institutions
   and collections		 App: Department of Geology, 572 Rivers St., Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, United States (institutional address; updated 7 Mar 2013)
Catalogs:
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: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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