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Northwest Africa 14467
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14467
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14467
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Niger
Mass:help 3.6 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  H5/6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 255 approved meteorites classified as H5/6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 5 Dec 2021
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14467 (NWA 14467)

Niger

Purchased: 2020

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5/6)

History: Jean-Benoît de Mascarel purchased from a mineral and artefact dealer six fusion-crusted stones found within two kilometers of one another 60 km from a place called Ahouzigar, itself located 230 km ENE from Agadez.

Physical characteristics: Writeup physical: 1111 g ("Mascarel 2"), 519 g ("Mascarel 3"), 1357 g ("Mascarel 4"), 273 g ("Mascarel 5"), 322 g ("Macarel 7").

Petrography (E. Jacquet): Chondrules rarely discernible. Most troilite is fizzed (e.g. Bennett & McSween 1996).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite H5/6. A fifth stone, "Mascarel 6" (600 g), found it the same area, but it is much more weathered, and has too low magnetic susceptibility for an H chondrite (log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 3.44-3.59), so may not be paired with the others

Specimens: 273 g at the MNHNP, and the four remaining stones totalling 3329 g with de Mascarel.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:Agadez
Date:P 2020
Mass (g):3602
Pieces:5
Class:H5/6
Weathering grade:W0
Fayalite (mol%):18.13±0.02 (N=2)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.9±0.2 (N=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.5±0.1 (N=2)
Magnetic suscept.:5.33
Classifier:Emmanuel Jacquet, MNHNP
Type spec mass (g):273
Type spec location:MNHNP
Main mass:Jean-Benoît de Mascarel
Comments:Field names: Mascarel 2,3,4,5,6,7 (or "Mascarel-rectangle"); submitted by E. Jacquet
Institutions
   and collections		 MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Niger
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 93 approved meteorites from Niger (plus 4 unapproved names)

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