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Northwest Africa 10479
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 10479
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 10479
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 60 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  Eucrite-br
Recommended:  Eucrite-br    [explanation]

This is 1 of 237 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-br.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 24 Jan 2016
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Writeup from MB 105:

Northwest Africa 10479 (NWA 10479)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2015

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, brecciated)

History: The meteorite was purchased from the Moroccan meteorite dealer Smara Addi.

Physical characteristics: One small individual partly covered with fusion crust was recovered from the north-African Sahara.

Petrography: The meteorite is a breccia composed of lithic clasts set into a fine-grained matrix. Lithic lasts are dominantly coarse-grained basaltic. Most abundant minerals are exsolved pyroxenes and plagioclase, less abundant are chromite, pyrrhotite and SiO2 polymorphs. Some shock melt veins are present.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs31.8±3.3Wo6.9±1.6 (Fs28.4-40.2Wo5.2-10.2, n=27, FeO/MnO=26-31); Ca-pyroxene: Fs53.6±9.6Wo22.5±2.7 (Fs39.5-74.1Wo18.2-27.9, n=34, FeO/MnO=27-38); calcic plagioclase: An85.2±2.9 (An79.5-92.3, n=25)

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2015
Mass (g):60
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-br
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):31.8; 53.6
Wollastonite (mol%):6.9; 22.5
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):13.1
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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