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Northwest Africa 11601
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11601
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11601
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: Algeria
Mass:help 16.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  Eucrite
Recommended:  Eucrite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 598 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Eucrite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 9 Feb 2018
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Writeup from MB 107:

Northwest Africa 11601 (NWA 11601)

Algeria

Purchased: 2016 May 1

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite)

History: Purchased by Miao Bing-an in 2016 in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: The meteorite has pitted irregular surfaces and is light to dark gray to pale brown in overall color. Most of the stones have partial coatings of greenish to whitish lichens.

Petrography (L. Huang, B. Miao, H. Chen, GUT): This meteorite is a pigeonite-plagioclase rock with fine to medium grain size. Breccia composed of mineral and lithic fragments set in a fine-grained, generally fragmental matrix. Lithic clasts are generally subophitic with fine to medium-grained (~0.1-0.4 mm) pyroxenes and skeletal plagioclase grains and a fine-grained mesostasis. A silica phase is commonly present. Accessories are ilmenite, chromite, troilite and rare iron metal.

Geochemistry (L. Huang, B. Miao, H. Chen, GUT): Bulk pyroxene: Fe/Mn=32.1. Low-Ca pyroxene of basaltic lithologies: median compositions are Mg#=38.2, Fs57.1Wo5.6 (n=16). High-Ca pyroxene of basaltic lithologies: median compositions are Mg#=37.5, Fs45.5Wo27.5 (n=13). Plagioclase: An85.2-87.7Or0.5-1.3, median An86.3Or0.9 (n=14).

Classification: Basaltic unbrecciated eucrite

Specimens: 8.4 g and polished thin section are deposited in GUT

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2016 May 1
Mass (g):16.85
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite
Classifier:B. Miao, L.Huang,H. Chen, GUT
Type spec mass (g):8.4
Type spec location:GUT
Main mass:GUT
Comments:Submitted by Bingkui Miao
Institutions
   and collections
GUT: College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, 12 Jiangan Road, Guilin 541004, China (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Public domain photographs:
Zhipeng Xia   
Geography:

Algeria
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1344 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 30 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters)
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