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Northwest Africa 12485
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12485
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12485
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 49 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Eucrite-melt breccia
Recommended:  Eucrite-melt breccia    [explanation]

This is 1 of 104 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-melt breccia.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 4 Mar 2019
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Northwest Africa 12485 (NWA 12485)

(Northwest Africa)

Find: 2018 Oct

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, melt breccia)

History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in Guelmin in October 2018.

Physical characteristics: Gray stones, some crusted, with brecciated gray interior.

Petrography: Melt breccia with lithic clasts made of low-Ca pyroxene and minor chromite set in a feldspathic melt rock containing small Ca-Px crystals. The melt rock contain sulfide droplets.

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene clasts Fs36.6±1.2Wo5.7±2.4, FeO/MnO 29.4±2.5 (n=4). Feldspathic melt rock An91.1Ab8.7Or0.3 (n=2). Chromite Cr#=0.81.

Classification: Eucrite-melt breccia.

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelpserger.

Data from:
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Date:2018 Oct
Mass (g):49.0
Pieces:3
Class:Eucrite-melt breccia
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):36.6±1.2 (n=4)
Wollastonite (mol%):5.7±2.4
Magnetic suscept.:2.76
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, L. Krämer Ruggiu, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):10.3
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Jean Redelsperger
Comments:work name JR059; submitted by JérômeGattacceca
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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