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Northwest Africa 14066
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14066
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14066
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 129 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CO3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 642 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CO3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites
Comments: Approved 31 Aug 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14066 (NWA 14066)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2020 Dec

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3)

History: Purchased by Tom Thiegs in December 2020 from a Moroccan dealer.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Relatively small, well-formed glass-bearing chondrules (apparent diameter 250±160 µm, N = 22), zoned olivine fragments and very fine grained CAI are set in a fine grained matrix (~20. vol.%, orange-brown in thin section) containing, kamacite, taenite and troilite. One CAI is composed of aluminous diopside, gehlenite, perovskite and pleonaste.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa25.3±27.8, range Fa1.4-55.4, N = 6; Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.05-0.58 wt.%, mean 0.23±0.24 wt.%, N = 4), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs22.3±18.4Wo2.0±1.7, range Fs1.2-47.1Wo0.7-4.4, N = 5), subcalcic augite (Fs17.4Wo29.8), diopside (Fs1.1Wo49.0).

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CO3).

Specimens: 20.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. T. Thiegs.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2020 Dec
Mass (g):129
Pieces:1
Class:CO3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):25.3±27.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):22.3±18.4
Wollastonite (mol%):2.0±1.7
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):20.2
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:T. Thiegs
Comments:Work name TGT001; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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