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Northwest Africa 14982
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14982
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14982
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 25 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  CV3
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 467 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 25 May 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14982 (NWA 14982)

Morocco

Find: 2019

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

History: The stone was recovered in Morocco during the summer of 2019. It was sold to a Chinese meteorite collector Zhang Bo at the Munich mineral show in Oct. 2019. In September 2020, Shanghai Planetarium purchased a 8.5 kg end cut of the stone. Zhang Bo holds the main mass (16.5 kg).

Physical characteristics: A single black stone in the size of 40 × 18 × 115 cm. Fusion crust is well preserved. Several large (cm-sized) round CAIs are visible on the surface and on the slices.

Petrography: The stone contains abundant relatively large, well-shaped chondrules (~0.2-5 mm, ~45 vol%). Several irregularly shaped CAIs (5 vol%) are embedded in a fine-grained silicate and opaque matrix (50 vol%). The major silicate minerals include olivine, low calcium pyroxene and plagioclase. The mineral phases in CAIs include gehlenite, spinel, perovskite and fassaite.

Geochemistry: Mean olivine: Fa6.1 (range Fa0.3-15.2); mean low-Ca pyroxene: Fs1.2Wo0.9 (range Fs0.7-2.4Wo0.7-1.0)

Data from:
  MB111
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Place of purchase:Munich
Date:2019
Mass (g):25000
Pieces:1
Class:CV3
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):0.3-15.2; Avg=6.1+-4.0 (1SD) (n=31)
Ferrosilite (mol%):0.7-2.4; Avg=1.2+-0.5 (1SD) (n=11)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.7-1.0; Avg=0.9+-0.1 (1SD) (n=11)
Classifier:Li P.Y., PMO
Type spec mass (g):640
Type spec location:PMO
Main mass:Zhang Bo
Comments:Submitted by Hsu W.
Institutions
   and collections
PMO: Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China (institutional address; updated 16 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:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2068 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 31 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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