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Northwest Africa 467
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 467
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 467
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 297 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 85  (2001)  H3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H3
Recommended:  H3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 663 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:
  MB85
  Table 4
  Line 121:
Origin or pseudonym:near Algerian border
Date:2000
Mass (g):297
Pieces:1
Class:H3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):4.1-22.6
Classifier:F. Brandstätter (NHMV)
Type spec mass (g):37.8
Main mass:V. Jacques, 19, rue Bruyères d'Inchebroux, B-1325 Chaumont-Gistoux, Belgium
Comments:Composition of low-Ni metal: 6.0 wt% Ni and 0.46 wt% Co; contains a melt breccia clast (~1 cm) with euhedral olivines (~10 to 50 µm in size).
Institutions
   and collections		 NHMV: Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria, Austria; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Jan 2019)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8559 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1896 unapproved names)

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