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Northwest Africa 11427
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11427
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11427
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 320 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106  (2018)  Eucrite-mmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-mmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 294 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 13 Oct 2017
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Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11427 (NWA 11427)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2017 Apr

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict)

History: Purchased by Fabien Kuntz in April 2017 from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Melt-matrix breccia consisting of shocked gabbroic eucrite clasts in a sparse heterogeneous matrix exhibiting quench and flowage textures. Gabbroic eucrite clasts are composed mainly of microcrystalline clinopyroxene (pale orange in thin section) and polycrystalline calcic plagioclase with accessory silica polymorph, chromite, ilmenite, troilite and barite. Clinopyroxenes (formerly exsolved pigeonite) now consist of diffuse heterogeneous lamellae of pigeonite within host augite, and appear to have been thermally annealed. Secondary calcite and barite are present.

Geochemistry: High-Ca pyroxene host (Fs28.9-31.4Wo43.7-41.1, FeO/MnO = 32-33, N = 2), low-Ca pyroxene exsolution lamellae (Fs59.3Wo17.3; Fs48.6Wo20.1; FeO/MnO = 31-32; N = 2), plagioclase (An87.8-87.9Or1.2-0.8, N = 2).

Classification: Eucrite (gabbroic, melt matrix breccia).

Specimens: 23.05 g including one polished thin section at PSF; remainder with Kuntz.

Data from:
  MB106
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Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2017 Apr
Mass (g):320.1
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-mmict
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:moderate
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):23.05
Type spec location:PSF
Main mass:F. Kuntz
Comments:Work name K327; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 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 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 9921 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1838 unapproved names)

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