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Northwest Africa 6345
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 6345
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 6345
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 26 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  Eucrite-pmict
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 19 Sep 2011
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Writeup from MB 100:

Northwest Africa 6345 (NWA 6345)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2010 Jun

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict)

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS): Polymict breccia composed mostly of basaltic eucrite clasts and debris, with sparse diogenitic clasts.

Geochemistry: Minerals include exsolved pigeonite (clinopyroxene lamellae within orthopyroxene host, and vice versa), diogenitic orthopyroxene, calcic plagioclase, silica polymorph, ilmenite and troilite. Exsolved pigeonite contains orthopyroxene (Fs53.9-64.4Wo2.3-1.9; FeO/MnO = 32.4-36.1) and clinopyroxene (Fs23.0-28.8Wo42.6; FeO/MnO = 30.6-31.7); diogenitic orthopyroxene is Fs26.5-26.6Wo3.7; FeO/MnO = 27.4-30.3).

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1355:
Origin or pseudonym:Northwest Africa
Place of purchase:St. Marie-aux-Mines, France
Date:P 2010 Jun
Mass (g):26
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-pmict
Ferrosilite (mol%):53.9-64.4
Wollastonite (mol%):2.3-1.9
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):5.4
Type spec location:UWS
Main mass:P. Marmet
Comments:PMMC-1008; submitted by A. Irving
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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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

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