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Northwest Africa 14468
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14468
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14468
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 3.29 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  CVox3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 33 approved meteorites classified as CVox3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 15 Dec 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14468 (NWA 14468)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Western Sahara.

Physical characteristics: Oriented stone completely covered with fresh fusion crust.

Petrography: Chondrite composed of large chondrules (up to 800 µm sized), whitish CAIs (up to 12 mm sized), and olivine amoeboids all set into an abundant fine-grained almost black matrix. Opaque phases are Ni-rich sulfides, magnetite, and rare metal. Few chondrules show brownish staining due to terrestrial alteration.

Geochemistry: Ni in sulfides 17.6±1.1 wt%, N=7

Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CVox3). Oxidized subgroup based on high concentrations of Ni in sulfide Gattacceca et al., 2020.

Bibliography:
  • Gattacceca J.,Bonal L.,Sonzognia C., and Longereya J. (2020) CV chondrites: More than one parent body. Earth Planet. Sci. Letts. 547, 116467. (link)
Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Western Sahara
Date:P 2021
Mass (g):3292
Pieces:1
Class:CVox3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):11.4±15.4 (0.7-43.7, n=16)
Ferrosilite (mol%):2.0±0.6 (1.4-2.9, n=15)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±0.5 (0.4-2.5, n=15)
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):26.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Tomasz Jakubowski
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9370 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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