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Northwest Africa 14330
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14330
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14330
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 431 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  L-melt rock
Recommended:  L-melt rock    [explanation]

This is 1 of 52 approved meteorites classified as L-melt rock.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 13 Nov 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14330 (NWA 14330)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 May

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L, melt rock)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorite hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in May, 2021.

Physical characteristics: Dark brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a microporphyritic texture, and is composed of about 10 to 100 µm sized subhedral to eudral olivine and pyroxene grains with interstitial mesostasis. Olivine is compositionally equilibrated and sometimes poikilitically enclosed in pyroxene which shows strong compositional zoning. It contains olivine and pyroxene fragments that show mottled zoning and resorption textures. A single relict chondrule was found. Opaque phases are FeNi metal and FeS.

Geochemistry: Olivine in relict chondrule: Fa23.2±0.2, n=10; olivine in matrix: Fa24.2±0.5 (Fa23.7-25.1, n=10); pyroxene in relict chondrule: Fs19.6±0.4Wo1.8±0.3, n=10; pyroxene in matrix: Fs16.8±1.8Wo6.9±9.2 (Fs13.1-19.1Wo1.2-29.6, n=14)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Date:P 2021 May
Mass (g):431
Pieces:1
Class:L-melt rock
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):23.2; 24.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.6; 16.8
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8; 6.9
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Salamu Ali
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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Ansgar Greshake         
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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