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Northwest Africa 13232
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13232
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13232
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1343 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2021)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13099 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 23 Feb 2020
Data from:
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Place of purchase:Mauritania
Date:P 2019
Mass (g):1343
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):23.8±0.6 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.0±0.7 (n=11)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8±0.2 (n=11)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):21.5
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Said Yousfi
Comments:Dark brownish rock with some fusion crust. The plagioclase grain size is about 70 µm.; submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
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References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Bullock E., Chennaoui Aoudjehane H., Debaille V., D’Orazio M., Komatsu M., Miao B. and Schrader D. L. (2021) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56, 1626–1630.
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9933 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1837 unapproved names)

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