Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 12808

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Northwest Africa 12808

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 12808
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12808
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 5.28 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 108	(2020)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 824 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 27 Jul 2019

Writeup

Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12808 (NWA 12808)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2001

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a local meteorite dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Greyish fragment with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with nicely defined, mostly flattened and loosely packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.7 mm) in a more fine-grained matrix that contains sulfides and FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:	Erfoud, Morocco
Date:	P 2001
Mass (g):	5280
Pieces:	1
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S1
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	14.1±10.0 (0.5-24.7, n=33)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	12.7±7.1 (6.2-24.7, n=24)
Wollastonite (mol%):	0.7±0.6 (0.2-2.3, n=24)
Magnetic suscept.:	4.71
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	26.0
Type spec location:	MNB
Main mass:	A. Pani, Vienna
Comments:	Submitted by Ansgar Greshake

Institutions
and collections

MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Pani: A. Pani, Meteorites-Minerals-Fossils, Lassallestr. 4/20, A-1020 Vienna, Austria; Website (private address)
Vienna: University of Vienna, Dr-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien, Austria (institutional address)

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 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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