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Northwest Africa 14644
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14644
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14644
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 231 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Eucrite-cm    [explanation]

This is 1 of 52 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-cm.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 19 Mar 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14644 (NWA 14644)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Nov

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, cumulate)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a group of meteorites hunters in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in November, 2021.

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a coarse-grained monomict breccia predominantly composed of up to 4 mm sized orthopyroxene and abundant calcic plagioclase crystals set into more fine-grained related cataclastic matrix. Orthopyroxene contains augite exsolution lamellae and some SiO2-chromite symplectites. Minor phases include silica, chromite, ilmenite, and troilite. The meteorite contains shock melt veins. Secondary calcite and barite are present.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs31.5±0.3Wo2.2±0.5 (Fs30.9-31.8Wo1.7-3.3, FeO/MnO=26-28, n=7); Ca-pyroxene: Fs11.9±0.2Wo44.4±0.2 (Fs11.6-12.1Wo44.2-44.8, FeO/MnO=19-24, n=7); calcic plagioclase: An92.7±0.6 (An91.5-93.5, n=7); Chromite: #Mg:9.2; Ti (apfu): 0.08; N=4

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Date:P 2021 Nov
Mass (g):231.3
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-cm
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:high
Ferrosilite (mol%):31.5; 11.9
Wollastonite (mol%):2.2; 44.4
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):230
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:MNB
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8495 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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