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Northwest Africa 11367
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11367
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11367
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 305 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106  (2018)  Lunar
Recommended:  Lunar    [explanation]

This is 1 of 102 approved meteorites classified as Lunar.   [show all]
Search for other: Lunar meteorites
Comments: Approved 13 Oct 2017
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Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11367 (NWA 11367)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: April 2017

Classification: Lunar meteorite

History: Purchased from a meteorite dealer by the owner, in Erfoud, April 2017.

Physical characteristics: Two stones (127 and 178 g) with no fusion crust. The fresh interior exhibits white angular clasts in a medium-gray matrix.

Petrography: Breccia composed of angular mineral fragments and some olivine noritic clasts in a finer grained matrix. Minerals are anorthite, olivine, low-Ca pyroxenes, chromite, troilite and kamacite.

Geochemistry: Anorthite clasts An96.0±0.2 (N=6). The compositions of the phases from a noritic clast are: olivine Fa53±0.3, Fe/Mn=112±13 (N=9), anorthite An95.0-95.8, and pigeonite with augite exsolutions (respectively Fs43.2±0.6Wo4.8±0.8, Fe/Mn=65±5 (N=11), and Fs20.8±0.8Wo39.8±1.8, Fe/Mn=60±16 (N=3).

Classification: lunar (feldspathic breccia)

Specimens: 21.5 g including a polished thick section

Data from:
  MB106
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P April 2017
Mass (g):305
Pieces:2
Class:Lunar
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Classifier:J.-A. Barrat, IUEM
Type spec mass (g):21.5
Type spec location:IUEM
Main mass:with the anonymous owner
Finder:anonymous
Comments:work name UBO-2017-JAB92; submitted by Jean-Alix Barrat
Institutions
   and collections		 IUEM: Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané Cedex, France (institutional address; updated 15 Sep 2017)
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 9111 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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