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Northwest Africa 2366
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 2366
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 2366
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1239 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  Eucrite
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Eucrite-pmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-pmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 393 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
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Northwest Africa 2366

Northwest Africa

Found 2003

Achondrite (eucrite)

Four stones with a total weight of 1239 grams were purchased in Erfoud, Morocco in 2004 May. Description and classification (T. Bunch and J, Wittke, NAU): polymict breccia that contains a variety of textures including subophitic, phyric, cumulate (fine to coarse-grained varieties), variolitic, and shock melt. Phyric basalt: orthopyroxene phenocrysts, Fs56.4Wo3.0, FeO/MnO = 34.5; groundmass augite, Fs35.6Wo34.2; plagioclase, An 81.6. Coarse-grained cumulate: orthopyroxene, Fs43.9Wo 1.9, FeO/MnO = 37.3; exsolved pigeonite, Fs46.3Wo 3.4; plagioclase, An94.9. Variolitic basalt:  Fs59.0Wo2.9, FeO/MnO = 35.3; subcalcic augite, Fs43.9Wo19.3; plagioclase, An76.5. Only very small amounts of ilmenite and no chromite were found in any rock type.  All clasts and matrix are strongly shocked, pyroxenes and plagioclase are mostly recrystallized); shock melt clasts are xenoliths, low weathering grade. Specimens: type specimen, 28 g, NAU; main mass, Birdsell.

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 7
  Line 207:
Place of purchase:Erfoud
Date:2004
Mass (g):1239
Pieces:4
Class:Euc
Ferrosilite (mol%):56.4; 43.9; 59.0 An81.6; pbr
Classifier:Ted Bunch, NAU
Type spec mass (g):28
Type spec location:NAU
Main mass:Birdsell
Institutions
   and collections		 NAU: Geology, Bldg 12 Knoles Dr Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Apr 2012)
Birdsell: Arizona Skies Meteorites, P.O. Box 2412, Flagstaff, AZ 86003, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Don Edwards   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9013 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1869 unapproved names)

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