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Northwest Africa 10444
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10444
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10444
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 133.6 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  Howardite
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
Comments: Approved 31 Dec 2015
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Writeup from MB 104:

Northwest Africa 10444 (NWA 10444)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015 May

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in May 2015 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fresh fragmental breccia containing some basaltic eucrite clasts but mostly composed of related mineral fragments plus some diogenitic orthopyroxene (~12 vol.%). Minerals include calcic plagioclase, exsolved pigeonite, fayalite, Ti-Al-chromite, troilite and ilmenite (some in intergrowths with Ni-free metal, troilite and silica polymorph).

Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs61.0Wo3.3, FeO/MnO = 30), augite exsolution lamella (Fs28.3Wo42.4, FeO/MnO = 29), augite host (Fs30.5Wo39.8, FeO/MnO = 30), low-Ca pyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs56.4Wo7.7, FeO/MnO = 29), diogenitic orthopyroxene (Fs27.9Wo3.6; Fs42.4Wo1.9; FeO/MnO = 30-31, N = 2), fayalitic olivine (Fa70.8-72.7, FeO/MnO = 44-45, N = 2).

Classification: Howardite.

Specimens: 21.72 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with Kuntz.

Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2015 May
Mass (g):133.59
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):70.8-72.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):56.4-61.0; 28.3-30.5
Wollastonite (mol%):7.7-3.3; 42.4-39.8
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):21.72
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:F. Kuntz
Comments:K263; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
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PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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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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     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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