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Northwest Africa 14046
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14046
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14046
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Algeria
Mass:help 219 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 421 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
Comments: Approved 6 Jul 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14046 (NWA 14046)

Algeria

Find: 2020 Jul

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

History: Found at an unspecified site in the Adrar region of Algeria in July 2020 by a Saharawi team of hunters represented by David Lehman.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) A relatively fine grained breccia composed of small angular mineral clasts plus rare lithic clasts set in a very fine grained matrix (~50 vol.%, gray in thin section with orange staining of accessory kamacite grains). Mineral clasts include diogenitic orthopyroxene, eucritic low-Ca pyroxene, augite, subcalcic augite, exsolved pigeonite, anorthite and rare olivine. One polycrystalline diogenite clast and one intergranular-textured eucrite clast were observed in the studied thin section, and the overall proportions of diogenitic and eucritic material as clasts are estimated to be subequal. Secondary barite and celestite are present.

Geochemistry: Diogenitic orthopyroxene (Fs28.1-29.9Wo2.0-3.5, FeO/MnO = 26-30, N = 2), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs42.5-46.7Wo1.1-3.7, FeO/MnO = 26-29, N = 5), subcalcic augite (Fs24.0Wo31.3, FeO/MnO =26), augite (Fs25.5Wo44.1, FeO/MnO = 31), olivine (18.7±0.0, FeO/MnO = 35-38, N = 2), anorthite (An91.7-96.1Or0.3-0.1, N = 3).

Classification: Howardite.

Specimens: 20.2 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Mr. D. Lehman.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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Date:2020 Jul
Mass (g):219
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:low
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):18.7±0.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.1-29.9; 42.5-52.2; 24.0; 25.5
Wollastonite (mol%):2.0-3.5; 1.1-3.7; 31.3; 44.1
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):20.1
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:D. Lehman
Comments:Work name DL 1056; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography:

Algeria
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 1208 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 29 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters)

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