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Northwest Africa 14022
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14022
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14022
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Mauritania
Mass:help 1635 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 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 18 Jun 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14022 (NWA 14022)

Mauritania

Purchased: 2018 Mar

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Ordinary chondrite with recrystallized yet easily discernible chondrules with typical size ~800 µm. The inter-chondrule porosity is 5.3% (point counting, n=322), under the form of ~50 µm cavities. Native copper is present, associated with metal.

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Place of purchase:Bologna, Italy
Date:P 2018 Mar
Mass (g):1635
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Weathering grade:W1
Magnetic suscept.:4.93
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):22
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Lucian Cojocaru
Finder:anonymous
Comments:work name LC17; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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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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