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Northwest Africa 14481 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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: 1350 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
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: MB110 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) |
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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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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