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Northwest Africa 14808
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14808
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14808
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 67 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  CVox3
MB 113  (2024)  CVoxB3
Recommended:  CVoxB3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites classified as CVoxB3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 8 May 2022
Revised 27 Mar 2024: Updated class per metbull text
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14808 (NWA 14808)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Nov

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3)

Physical characteristics: A single stone without fusion crust. Cut surface reveals large chondrules and large CAIs set in a dark matrix.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Millimeter-sized chondrules and CAIs to several mm in size set in abundant Fe-rich fine-grained matrix. Magnetite is abundant. Metal is rare and restricted to µm-sized blebs in silicates. No sulfide was found.

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa10.9±7.2, range Fa4.1-22.1 (n=6). Low-Ca pyroxene Fs3.1±3.5Wo1.1±0.1, range Fs1.0-12.1 (n=8). Magnetite Cr2O3 0.64±0.53 wt% (n=5). Two type of fine-grained matrix are observed, with contrasted FeO content. Defocused analyses of the matrix: FeO 37.1 wt%, analytical total 92.7 wt% ; FeO 52.4 wt%, total 92.0 wt%.

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3). Cvox group based on the elevated magnetite content and quasi-absence of metal. The elevated magnetite content (as indicated by the magnetic susceptibilty) indicates that the meteorite belongs to the CVoxB subgroup (Bali-type).

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Kuntz.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Guelmim, Morocco
Date:P 2021 Nov
Mass (g):67
Pieces:1
Class:CVox3
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):10.9±7.2 (n=6)
Ferrosilite (mol%):3.1±3.5 (n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.1±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.70
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):14.2
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Kuntz
Finder:anonymous
Comments:work name K546b; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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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Public domain photographs:
Jerome Gattacceca   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9914 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1841 unapproved names)

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