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Northwest Africa 13314
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 13314
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 13314
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 2.75 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Eucrite-br    [explanation]

This is 1 of 225 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-br.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 13 Jun 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Northwest Africa 13314 (NWA 13314)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2020 Jan

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, brecciated)

History: Purchased by Darryl Pitt in January 2020 from a dealer in Marrakech, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of microgabbroic, diabasic and some finer grained subophitic eucrite clasts within a matrix of related crystalline debris. Minerals are exsolved pigeonite (pale orange in thin section) and calcic plagioclase (exhibiting undulose extinction to polycrystalline structure) together with accessory silica polymorph, ilmenite, Ti-Al-chromite and troilite.

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene (Fs58.5-59.7Wo3.1-7.0, FeO/MnO = 30-33, N = 5), high-Ca pyroxene (Fs25.9-26.4Wo43.2-43.9, FeO/MnO = 29-33, N = 5), plagioclase (An89.6-90.7Or0.3-0.5, N = 4).

Classification: Eucrite (breccia). Possibly paired with NWA 13310.

Specimens: 50.6 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with DPitt.

Data from:
  MB109
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Place of purchase:Marrakech
Date:P 2020 Jan
Mass (g):2750
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-br
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):58.5-59.7; 25.9-26.4
Wollastonite (mol%):3.1-7.0; 43.2-43.9
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):50.6
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:D. Pitt
Comments:Work name MVCH 493; 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)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
DPitt: Darryl Pitt, 225 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024, United States; Website (private address)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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