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Northwest Africa 14125
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14125
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14125
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 1200 g
Classification
  history:
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 24 Jul 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14125 (NWA 14125)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Jun

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Mauritania.

Physical characteristics: Many dark grayish fragments some of which partly to almost completely covered with fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a monomict basaltic breccia composed of coarse- and more fine-grained regions. Grain sizes are about 400 µm in the coarse-grained and about 70 µm in the fine-grained areas. Main minerals in both regions are exsolved pyroxene and often lath-shaped calcic plagioclase. Minor phases include silica, chromite, FeS, and ilmenite. No metallic iron has been detected. The meteorite contains some shock melt veins.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs65.4±0.3Wo2.1±0.4 (Fs65.1-65.8Wo1.8-2.9, FeO/MnO=28-29, n=5); Ca-pyroxene: Fs28.8±1.4Wo43.9±1.5 (Fs27.3-31.2Wo41.4-45.5, FeO/MnO=26-29, n=5); calcic plagioclase: An83.0±1.0 (An81.7-84.1, n=5)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Mauritania
Date:P 2021 Jun
Mass (g):1200
Pieces:many
Class:Eucrite-mmict
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:moderate
Ferrosilite (mol%):65.4; 28.8
Wollastonite (mol%):2.1; 43.9
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):30.6
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Hanno Strufe and Andreas Grünemeyer
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. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8394 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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