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Northwest Africa 11349
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11349
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11349
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 9.13 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106  (2018)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11568 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 19 Jun 2017
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Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11349 (NWA 11349)

(Northwest Africa)

Find: 2016

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

History: Purchased by Dave Gheesling from a meteorite dealer, reportedly found in Morocco, 2016.

Physical characteristics: Single, angular shaped stone, dark weathered fusion crust, with many regmaglypts. Saw cut shows scattered small chondrules and abundant fine-grained metal/sulfide set in a brown matrix.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Microprobe examination of a polished mount shows textually equilibrated chondrules and recrystallized matrix. Plagioclase grain size is up to ~25 μm.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee and B. Ha, UNM) Olivine Fa19.6±1.5, n=8; low-Ca pyroxene Fs16.9±0.8Wo1.4±0.1, n=6.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

Specimens: 25.23 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Dave Gheesling holds the main mass of 9.1 kg.

Data from:
  MB106
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:2016
Mass (g):9130
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):19.6±1.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.9±0.8
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.1
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):25.35
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Dave Gheesling
Comments:Field name DG-7; 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 Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)
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