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Northwest Africa 002

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 002
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 002
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: Morocco
Mass: 234 g

Classification
history:

NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	EL6
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 84	(2000)	EL6
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	EL6
Recommended:			EL-melt rock [explanation]

This is 1 of 25 approved meteorites classified as EL-melt rock. [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), Enstatite-rich meteorites, and Melted chondrites

Comments:

Revised 1 Sep 2019: Reclassified by Rubin (2016)

Writeup

Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 002: reclassification

Rubin (2016) reclassified Al Haggounia 001 and paired specimens as "vesicular, incompletely melted, EL chondrite impact melt rock[s]." NWA 002 is likely paired, and is therefore also reclassified.

Bibliography:

Rubin A.E. (2016) Impact melting of the largest known enstatite meteorite: Al Haggounia 001, a fossil EL chondrite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 51 1576-1587. (link)

Data from:
  MB84
  Table 9
  Line 2:

Origin or pseudonym:	Anbdour
Place of purchase:	Tagounite
Latitude:	29°55'N
Longitude:	5°35'W
Mass (g):	10
Pieces:	many
Class:	EL6
Shock stage:	S6
Weathering grade:	W4
Ferrosilite (mol%):	0.52
Classifier:	S. Afanasiev and M. Ivanova (Vernad)
Type spec location:	Vernad
Comments:	Partly melted; 0.93 wt% Si in metal; plag, An10.5.; Purchased by S. Afanasiev, V. Kalachev, and D. Kachalin during a 1999 meteorite expedition in the Moroccan Sahara

Institutions
and collections

Vernad: Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russia (institutional address; updated 21 Feb 2016)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Don Edwards
Matteo Chinellato
Shinichi Kato
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
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Geography:

Morocco

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(29° 55'N, 5° 35'W)
Recommended::	(29° 55'N, 5° 35'W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 73 approved meteorites from Souss-Massa-Draâ, Morocco (plus 4 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 2012 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 35 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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