header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 29 Jan 2023
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 5408
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 5408
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 5408
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2008
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 2.23 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 96  (2009)  Eucrite, (polymict)
Recommended:  Eucrite-pmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 391 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 16 Apr 2009
Data from:
  MB96
  Table 2
  Line 46:
State/Prov/County:Algeria
Date:Jun-08
Mass (g):2228
Pieces:42
Class:Eucrite, (polymict)
Ferrosilite (mol%):49.9
Wollastonite (mol%):3.2
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):45.9
Type spec location:UWS
Main mass:GHupé
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)
GHupé: Gregory M. Hupé, 9003 Placid Lakes Blvd., Lake Placid, FL 33852, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 96, MAPS 44, 1355-1397 (2009)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8904 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1871 unapproved names)

Direct link to this page