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Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 14887 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 14887 Observed fall: No Year found: 2022 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 78 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 487 approved meteorites classified as LL3. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 9 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Northwest Africa 14887 (NWA 14887) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2022 Jan Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3) History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania in January, 2022. Physical characteristics: Brownish fragment partly covered with fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly rounded and partly packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a fine-grained dark brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB111 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. 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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9699 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1854 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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