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Northwest Africa 305
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 305
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 305
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 210 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  E3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  E3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  E3
Recommended:  E3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 206 approved meteorites classified as E3.   [show all]
Search for other: Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 3), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 10:
Origin or pseudonym:Algeria
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:P Dec 2000
Mass (g):210
Pieces:1
Class:E3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.11
Classifier:S. V. Afanasiev (Vernad)
Type spec mass (g):34.7
Type spec location:Vernad
Main mass:Bessey
Comments:plag: An10.8; purchased by Bessey
Institutions
   and collections		 Vernad: Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russia (institutional address; updated 21 Feb 2016)
Bessey: Dean Bessey ,P.O. Box 40810, Glenfield, Auckland 1310 , New Zealand; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9092 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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