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Northwest Africa 13742
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13742
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13742
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Mauritania
Mass:help 272 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  eucrite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 537 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as eucrite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 13742 (NWA 13742)

Mauritania

Purchased: 2020

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite)

History: Thirty-four samples with a TKW of 271.6 g were found in December 2020 by anonymous prospectors in Mauritania. John Higgins purchased the samples from a Mauritanian meteorite dealer in 2020.

Physical characteristics: Samples are irregularly shaped and have a dark exterior lacking fusion crust. Some samples contain small holes that may represent vesicles. The cut face shows the interior is composed of abundant light-colored crystalline clasts set in a dark matrix.

Petrography: Description and classification (A. Love, App) Sample is a breccia composed of mm-sized angular, basaltic-textured clasts set within a comminuted matrix of related debris. Pyroxenes are exsolved and both pyroxene and plagioclase show clouding by opaques and other phases. Additional minerals are: ilmenite, chromite, a silica polymorph, phosphates and terrestrial barite.

Geochemistry: low Ca pyroxene (Fs64.1±1.0Wo2.6±0.7, Fe/Mn=30.5±1.1, Mg#=34.2±0.6, n=12); high Ca pyroxene (Fs29.1±1.7Wo42.6±2.0, Fe/Mn=31.9±1.0, n=12); plagioclase (An91.9±0.7Or0.4±0.1, n=9).

Classification: HED achondrite (eucrite). Mineral compositions and textures suggest sample is an equilibrated basaltic eucrite breccia (M-S3, low weathering).

Specimens: John Higgins holds the main masses. 7 slices, endpieces and fragments weighing 27.98 g, a polished mount and thin section are on deposit at App.

Data from:
  MB110
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Date:P 2020
Mass (g):271.6
Pieces:34
Class:eucrite
Shock stage:M-S3
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):64.1±1.0; 29.1±1.7
Wollastonite (mol%):2.6±0.7; 42.6±2.0
Magnetic suscept.:2.92
Classifier:A. Love, App
Type spec mass (g):27.98
Type spec location:App
Main mass:John Higgins
Comments:Submitted by Anthony Love
Institutions
   and collections		 App: Department of Geology, 572 Rivers St., Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, United States (institutional address; updated 7 Mar 2013)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Mauritania
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 149 approved meteorites from Mauritania (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 2 impact craters)

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