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Northwest Africa 1230
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 1230
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 1230
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 118 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  H4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6426 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 6
  Line 146:
Origin or pseudonym:Morocco
Date:1999
Mass (g):118
Class:H4
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):20.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.4
Classifier:T. Mikouchi and K. Kaneda (UTok)
Type spec mass (g):55
Type spec location:Utok
Main mass:unknown
Institutions
   and collections		 UTok: University Museum, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan (institutional address; updated 3 Oct 2021)
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 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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