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Northwest Africa 14401
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14401
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14401
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 352 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  H6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6375 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as H6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 31 Oct 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14401 (NWA 14401)

Morocco

Purchased: Aug 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6)

History: Purchased by Sean Tutorow from a dealer in August 2019 in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: The type specimen has a dark grey to brown interior and no fusion crust.

Petrography: (A. Bouvier, UBayr) Highly equilibrated matrix and chondrules. Pervasive weathering effects with oxide veins and dissolution pits which may be remnants of former metal grains, but metal and sulfides are still present.

Geochemistry: (R. Matthäus, UBayr) Olivine 17.9±0.5 (n=13), low-Ca pyroxene Fs16.0±0.2Wo1.4±0.2 (n=14), feldspar An11.3±0.4Or5.2±0.9 (n=7)

Classification: H6

Specimens: 30.8 g including a thin section and polished mount at UBayr. S. Tutorow holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P Aug 2019
Mass (g):352.1
Pieces:1
Class:H6
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):17.9±0.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.0±0.2
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.2
Classifier:A. Bouvier, UBayr
Type spec mass (g):30.8
Type spec location:UBayr
Main mass:S. Tutorow
Comments:G694; submitted by A. Bouvier
Institutions
   and collections		 UBayr: Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany (institutional address; updated 5 Feb 2020)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1847 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 24 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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