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Northwest Africa 12967
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12967
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12967
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Mauritania
Mass:help 4.6 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Mesosiderite
Recommended:  Mesosiderite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 273 approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite.   [show all]
Search for other: Mesosiderites, Metal-rich meteorites
Comments: Approved 23 Dec 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12967 (NWA 12967)

Mauritania

Purchased: 2019 May

Classification: Mesosiderite

History: Found in Mauritania and purchased by Rachid Chaoui in May 2019 from a dealer in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Aggregate of predominantly orthopyroxene, anorthite and metal (~30 vol.%, kamacite with minor taenite) plus subordinate olivine (as fractured unzoned grains with a range of compositions), augite, silica polymorph (as acicular grains), chromite, troilite, pentlandite, ilmenite and merrillite. Orthopyroxene is compositionally-zoned (with symplectitic chromite in the ferroan rims) and some orthopyroxene contains irregular included blebs of augite.

Geochemistry: Zoned orthopyroxene (cores: Fs17.8-22.6Wo1.0-2.1, FeO/MnO = 30-33, N = 4; rims: Fs30.1-34.1Wo3.8-1.9, FeO/MnO = 22-24, N = 4), olivine (Fa17.6-26.7, FeO/MnO = 36-41, N = 5), ferroan orthopyroxene hosts (Fs36.0-38.4Wo2.3-3.0, FeO/MnO = 21-23, N = 2), clinopyroxene blebs in orthopyroxene (Fs16.3-16.8Wo42.9-41.9, FeO/MnO = 17-18, N = 2), anorthite (An90.2-90.3Or0.3, N = 2).

Classification: Mesosiderite.

Specimens: 49 g polished slice at UWB; remainder with Mr. R. Chaoui.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Nouakchott
Date:P 2019 May
Mass (g):4600
Pieces:1
Class:Mesosiderite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):17.6-26.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.8-34.1
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0-3.8
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):49
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:R. Chaoui
Comments:Work name RC123.1; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography:

Mauritania
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 221 approved meteorites from Mauritania (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)
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