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Northwest Africa 15464
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 15464
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15464
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2022
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 188.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 836 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 4 Dec 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15464 (NWA 15464)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2022 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

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

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust.

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

Data from:
  MB111
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Place of purchase:Munich, Germany
Date:P 2022 Oct
Mass (g):188.9
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):16.3±10.0 (0.8-32.0, n=17)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.1±8.0 (2.1-28.5, n=21)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8±0.7 (0.3-2.5, n=21)
Magnetic suscept.:4.60
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23.8
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Hanno Strufe
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:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9589 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)
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