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Northwest Africa 11050
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11050
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11050
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 695 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 106  (2018)  Eucrite-mmict
Recommended:  Eucrite-mmict    [explanation]

This is 1 of 258 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites
Comments: Approved 7 Feb 2017
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Writeup from MB 106:

Northwest Africa 11050 (NWA 11050)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2006 Jun

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict)

History: Purchased from a Moroccan dealer at the mineral fair in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France.

Physical characteristics: Many fragments with remnants of fusion crust.

Petrography: (K. Metzler, IfP) Monomict breccia consisting of eucritic lithic clasts with ophitic to subophitic textures set in a fine-grained clastic matrix of related debris. Pyroxene crystals with thin augite exsolution lamellae. Lithic clasts frequently contain melt pockets consisting of a silica polymorph, ilmenite, and troilite.

Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: Eucritic pyroxene (host): Fs57.3±0.6Wo2.9±0.2 (Fs56.4-58.0Wo2.7-3.2, n=11). Eucritic pyroxene (exsolution lamellae) Fs27.4±0.6Wo41.5±0.7 (Fs26.6-28.5Wo40.4-42.4, n=9). Plagioclase An86.0±2.9Or0.7±0.6 (An80.3-89.1Or0.0-2.1, n=10).

Data from:
  MB106
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
Date:P 2006 Jun
Mass (g):695
Pieces:Many
Class:Eucrite-mmict
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):57.3; 27.4
Wollastonite (mol%):2.9; 41.5
Classifier:K. Metzler, IfP
Type spec mass (g):21
Type spec location:IfP
Main mass:anonymous
Comments:Submitted by K. Metzler, IfP
Institutions
   and collections		 IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8390 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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