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Northwest Africa 12927
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12927
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12927
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 3.8 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Diogenite
Recommended:  Diogenite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 522 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 21 Nov 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Northwest Africa 12927 (NWA 12927)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2016

Classification: HED achondrite (Diogenite)

History: Purchased Nov 2016 by Dustin Dickens in Mauritania from anonymous dealer.

Physical characteristics: Single stone with desert weathered exterior. Saw cut and broken surfaces reveal relatively coarse grained texture of dark brown grains set in a yellow-brown groundmass.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite is an equilibrated orthopyroxenite with ~95% pyroxene, and minor amounts of augite, chromite and iron-oxide. No olivine or plagioclase were detected.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee, UNM) Low-Ca pyroxene Fs27.3±0.6Wo3.6±1.0, Fe/Mn=27±0, n=5.

Classification: Diogenite

Specimens: 22 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Dustin Dickens holds the main mass.

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Place of purchase:Mauritania
Date:P 2016
Mass (g):3800
Pieces:1
Class:Diogenite
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):27.3±0.6
Wollastonite (mol%):3.6±1.0
Classifier:C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):22
Type spec location:UNM
Main mass:Dustin Dickens
Comments:Field name DD-52; submitted by C. Agee, UNM
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UNM: Institute of Meteoritics MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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     This is 1 of 9627 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1865 unapproved names)
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