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Northwest Africa 14152
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14152
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14152
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 58 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 1 Aug 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14152 (NWA 14152)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: July, 2021

Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, monomict)

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

Physical characteristics: Light-grayish fragments partly covered with fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite is a monomict brecciated basalt composed of more fine-grained (grain size about 100 µm) and more coarse-grained (grain size about 600 µm) lithologies. Dominant mineral phases are exsolved pyroxene and calcic plagioclase. Minor phases include silica, Ti-bearing chromite, ilmenite, and metallic iron. The meteorite contains some ferroan olivine.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene host crystals to augite exsolutions: Fs68.9±0.1Wo1.8±0.1 (Fs68.8-69.2Wo1.7-2.1, FeO/MnO=27-30, n=7); augite exsolutions: Fs31.1±0.2Wo44.0±0.2 (Fs30.9-31.4Wo43.7-44.3, FeO/MnO=28-32, n=7); olivine: Fa84.6±0.3 (Fa84.0-84.9, FeO/MnO=38±1, n=7); calcic plagioclase: An90.0±0.5 (An89.2-90.8, n=7)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P July, 2021
Mass (g):58
Pieces:1
Class:Eucrite-mmict
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):84.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):68.9±0.1 (n=7)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8±0.1
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):12.1
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
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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