Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 1207

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Northwest Africa 1207

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 1207
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1207
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 905 g

Classification
history:

NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	H3
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 86	(2002)	H3
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	H3
Recommended:			H3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 632 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 123:

Origin or pseudonym:	Zagora
Date:	1999
Mass (g):	905
Class:	H3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	18.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):	14.6
Classifier:	T. Mikouchi and K. Kaneda (UTok)
Type spec mass (g):	163
Type spec location:	Utok
Main mass:	unknown

Institutions
and collections

UTok: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan (institutional address; updated 5 Nov 2011)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)

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Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 7655 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1972 unapproved names)

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