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Northwest Africa 12756
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12756
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12756
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 100 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Diogenite
Recommended:  Diogenite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 520 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 18 Aug 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12756 (NWA 12756)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2019

Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite)

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

Physical characteristics: Grayish, slightly greenish rock with some fusion crust.

Petrography: Fragmental breccia predominantly composed of up to 5 mm sized orthopyroxene crystals set into fine-grained related matrix. Some of the pyroxenes display magmatic zoning. Minor phases include calcic plagioclase, silica, chromite, FeS, and FeNi-sulfides. No metallic Fe has been detected.

Geochemistry: unzoned blocky pyroxene: Fs28.5.0±0.2Wo1.3±0.1 (Fs28.1-28.7Wo1.2-1.4, n=15, FeO/MnO=26-29); magmatically zoned pyroxene: Fs24.3±1.1Wo2.0±0.6 (Fs23.2-26.4Wo1.3-2.8, n=16, FeO/MnO=26-32); olivine: Fa36.1±0.4 (Fa35.4-36.5, n=13, FeO/MnO=47±2); calcic plagioclase: An91.9±3.0 (An85.7-94.7, n=15)

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):100
Pieces:1
Class:Diogenite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):36.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.5; 24.3
Wollastonite (mol%):1.3; 2.0
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):21.8
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
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.

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     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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