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Northeast Africa 014
Basic information Name: Northeast Africa 014
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NEA 014
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Libya
Mass:help 1601 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2020)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 340 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 28 Sep 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northeast Africa 014 (NEA 014)

Libya

Purchased: 2020 Aug

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Purchased in August 2020 from a Libyan dealer.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of mineral clasts of anorthite, relatively abundant exsolved pigeonite and subordinate olivine set in a very fine grained matrix (sparsely vesicular) containing ilmenite, aluminous chromite, troilite and taenite. Pyroxene grains consist of augite lamellae within orthopyroxene or pigeonite hosts.

Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene host (Fs28.4-31.0Wo3.1-3.3, FeO/MnO = 54-61, N = 3), pigeonite host (Fs36.7Wo9.3, FeO/MnO = 65), pigeonite lamella (Fs27.2Wo21.5, FeO/MnO = 67), augite lamellae (Fs13.1-19.1Wo40.1-40.9, FeO/MnO = 50, N = 2), olivine (Fa21.0-23.5, FeO/MnO = 81-103, N = 3), anorthite (An95.6-97.1Or0.1, N = 3).

Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia, olivine-poor).

Specimens: 20.5 g including one polished mount at UWB; remainder with Labenne.

Data from:
  MB109
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Place of purchase:Libya
Date:P 2020 Aug
Mass (g):1601
Pieces:1
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):21.0-23.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.4-31.0; 36.7; 27.2; 13.1-19.1
Wollastonite (mol%):3.1-3.3; 9.3; 21.5; 40.1-40.9
Main mass:Labenne Luc
Comments:Work name SY59
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)
Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography:

Libya
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1553 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 24 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)
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