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Northwest Africa 14063
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14063
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14063
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 79 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 344 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 24 Jul 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14063 (NWA 14063)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Mar

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Many small grayish fragments without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a polymict breccia composed of up to 8 mm sized angular to sub-rounded lithic (gabbroic and basaltic) and mineral clasts set in fine-grained partly shock molten matrix that often shows flow textures. Minerals are predominantly calcic plagioclase, olivine, Ca-pyroxene, and low-Ca pyroxene. Minor phases include FeS, ilmenite, Ti-bearing chromite, and zircon.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa34.9±2.9 (Fa31.6-38.4, FeO/MnO=104±13, n=21); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs29.5±2.7Wo3.8±1.0 (Fs26.2-34.2Wo2.4-5.9, FeO/MnO=59±6, n=18); Ca-pyroxene: Fs14.7±2.8Wo40.9±4.3 (Fs11.3-18.9Wo35.4-46.6, FeO/MnO=44±6, n=14); calcic plagioclase: An96.2±0.4 (An95.6-96.6, n=14)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2021 Mar
Mass (g):79
Pieces:many
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):34.9
Ferrosilite (mol%):29.5; 14.7
Wollastonite (mol%):3.8; 40.9
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):16.5
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:David Göttlich
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
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: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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

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