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Northwest Africa 14064
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14064
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14064
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 24.5 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 14064 (NWA 14064)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Mar

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

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

Physical characteristics: Several small sand-colored fragments without fusion crust.

Petrography: Fragmental breccia composed of up to 1 cm feldspathic clasts in fine-grained partly shock molten matrix with flow textures. Minerals are predominantly plagioclase and olivine indicating the presence of abundant troctolitic material; augite and pigeonite are rare. Some olivines contain augite-chromite symplectites. Accessory phases are: FeS, ilmenite, Ti-bearing chromite, and silica as well as secondary barite, strontianite, and calcite.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa27.8±10.8 (Fa15.0-42.2, FeO/MnO=87±9, n=28); pigeonite: Fs27.7±3.6Wo11.1±1.4 (Fs23.8-32.6Wo8.3-13.5, FeO/MnO=55±6, n=17); Ca-pyroxene: Fs14.7±1.2Wo38.0±2.9 (Fs13.0-18.3Wo30.1-42.5, FeO/MnO=45±7, n=12); calcic plagioclase: An96.1±0.6 (An95.4-97.4, n=13)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2021 Mar
Mass (g):24.5
Pieces:several
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):27.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):27.7; 14.7
Wollastonite (mol%):11.1; 38.0
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):5.6
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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