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Northwest Africa 12676
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12676
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12676
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 12 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  H5-melt breccia
Recommended:  H5-melt breccia    [explanation]

This is 1 of 44 approved meteorites classified as H5-melt breccia.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 27 Jun 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12676 (NWA 12676)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5, melt breccia)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a local meteorite dealer in Niger.

Physical characteristics: Three dark brownish fragments without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a melt breccia composed of H5 chondritic regions (plagioclase grain size about 20 μm) and abundant up to 1 cm wide recrystallized melt rock veins and pockets with characteristic FeNi metal and sufide spherules. Some spheres are up to 6 mm in apparent diameter.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Niger
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):12000
Pieces:3
Class:H5-melt breccia
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):17.7±0.2 (n=12)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.5±0.2 (n=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7±0.1 (n=12)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):36.7
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Marcin Cimala
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
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 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names)

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