header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 10 Apr 2021
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:  
Northwest Africa 6206
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6206
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6206
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2008
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 3.03 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 99  (2011)  Howardite
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 393 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
Comments: Approved 28 Dec 2010
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 99:

Northwest Africa 6206 (NWA 6206)

Morocco

Purchased: 2008

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

Petrography: Clastic polymict breccia. Clasts include those dominated by plagioclase (An85-93), zoned pyroxene (Wo5En64Fs31-Wo5En40Fs55), low-Ca pyroxene (Wo13En30Fs57) with augite lamellae (Wo32En28Fs40), ferroan olivine (Fa75-78), silica, ilmenite, chromite, Fe-Ni metal, and lithic fragments.

Classification: Classified as a howardite based on pyroxene and olivine FeO/MnO ratios (33 and 47, respectively), the diversity of clasts and their similarity to HED lithologies.

Specimens: A 3.03 g type specimen, including one thin section, is on deposit at UAb.

Data from:
  MB99
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P 2008
Mass (g):3.03
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):75-78
Ferrosilite (mol%):24-57
Wollastonite (mol%):5-34
Classifier:C. Herd
Type spec mass (g):3.03
Type spec location:UAb
Main mass:UAb
Comments:Submitted by C. Herd
Institutions
   and collections		 UAb: 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada, Canada; Website (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1611 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 22 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

Direct link to this page