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Northwest Africa 14892

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 14892
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14892
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 962 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 9 May 2022

Writeup

Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14892 (NWA 14892)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022 Jan

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania in January, 2022.

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock with some fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite exhibits a chondritic texture with sharply outlined mostly rounded, separated chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.7 mm). The fine-grained matrix contains sulfides and FeNi metal partly altered to iron oxides and hydroxides.

Data from:
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Place of purchase:	Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Date:	P 2022 Jan
Mass (g):	962
Pieces:	1
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S1
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	15.3±9.1 (5.8-30.3, n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	12.1±7.1 (0.9-22.3, n=23)
Wollastonite (mol%):	0.7±0.5 (0.3-1.7, n=23)
Magnetic suscept.:	4.46
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	27
Type spec location:	MNB
Main mass:	Salamu Ali
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. 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:

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Statistics:
This is 1 of 9710 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1853 unapproved names)

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