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Northwest Africa 14481
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14481
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14481
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1350 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 840 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 23 Nov 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14481 (NWA 14481)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased in 2021 from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Dark grayish rock almost completely covered with fresh fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly flattened, and well packed chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.6 mm). The fine-grained matrix contains sulfides and FeNi metal.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2021
Mass (g):1350
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):13.6±10.6 (0.9-32.1, n=21)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.2±7.7 (2.1-22.9, n=18)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.8 (0.4-3.7, n=18)
Magnetic suscept.:4.73
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):28.1
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 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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