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 11944
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11944
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11944
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 397 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  LL4
Recommended:  LL4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 373 approved meteorites classified as LL4.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 3 Aug 2018
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 107:

Northwest Africa 11944 (NWA 11944)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2018

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL4)

History: The meteorite was bought from a Moroccan meteorite dealer at a mineral fair in Sainte Marie aux Mines, France.

Physical characteristics: Dark grayish individual lacking any fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with densely packed and partly flattened chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.9 mm).

Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Sainte Marie aux Mines, France
Date:P 2018
Mass (g):397.2
Pieces:1
Class:LL4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):27.6±0.4 (n=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.3±3.2 (9.6-23.1, n=16)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.4±0.1 (0.2-0.7, n=27)
Magnetic suscept.:4.06
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):53.2
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 7655 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1972 unapproved names)

Direct link to this page