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Northwest Africa 14579
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14579
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14579
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 201 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 848 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 15 Jan 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14579 (NWA 14579)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer at the mineral show in Munich, Germany.

Physical characteristics: Dark brownish rock largely covered with fusion crust.

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

Data from:
  MB111
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Place of purchase:Munich, Germany
Date:P 2021 Oct
Mass (g):201
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):14.5±11.3 (0.4-32.3, n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):10.6±8.6 (4.8-30.6, n=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.6±0.2 (0.4-1.0, n=12)
Magnetic suscept.:4.78
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23.5
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Hanno Strufe
Comments:L3; 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. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names)
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