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Northwest Africa 14510
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14510
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14510
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 112.6 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 15 Dec 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14510 (NWA 14510)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 1 April 2021

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

History: An importer of Moroccan meteorites brought a collection of stones to Robert Verish for classification.

Physical characteristics: This single (112.6 g) stone is shaped like a rectangular-solid. Only three sides are covered with a patchy black fusion-crust. A cut surface reveals a fresh matrx that has patches of clasts and crystals that are beige, tan, white, brassy, and small black specks.

Petrography: (D. Sheikh, Cascadia) Sample is a breccia composed of sub-angular lithic and mineral clasts (up to ~0.7 mm) set within a fine-grained matrix. Lithic clast lithologies include both blocky clasts dominated by orthopyroxene (~20 %) and clasts (both basaltic and cumulate) composed of low-Ca pyroxene, pigeonite (some exsolved), augite (some exsolved), and calcic plagioclase (~80 %). Accessory phases (<1 %) include SiO2-rich glass, ilmenite, and chromite.

Geochemistry: Blocky clasts (diogenite): Low-Ca Pyroxene (Fs28.2±1.9Wo3.7±0.5, range Fs25.6-30.7Wo3.0-4.4, FeO/MnO=25±2, n=6); Other clasts (eucrite): Low-Ca Pyroxene (Fs47.4±3.4Wo4.2±1.1, range Fs39.3-53.9Wo2.6-5.6, FeO/MnO=27±2, n=14), Pigeonite (Fs43.3±3.9Wo10.9±5.5, range Fs36.2-47.9Wo6.4-21.5, FeO/MnO=25±1, n=7), Augite (Fs22.7±5.6Wo40.9±5.7, range Fs18.6-32.2Wo30.7-43.9, FeO/MnO=27±4, n=5), Calcic Plagioclase (An93.4±0.5, range An92.9-94.7, n=10).

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

Specimens: 25 g at UCLA, main mass with Verish

Data from:
  MB110
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Origin or pseudonym:Sahara Desert
Place of purchase:Escondido, CA
Date:P 1 April 2021
Mass (g):112.6
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.2±1.9, 47.4±3.4, 43.3±3.9, 22.7±5.6
Wollastonite (mol%):3.7±0.5, 4.2±1.1, 10.9±5.5, 40.9±5.7
Classifier:Daniel Sheikh, Cascadia
Type spec mass (g):25
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Comments:Lab/thin-section ID: V-083; submitted by Daniel Sheikh
Institutions
   and collections		 Cascadia: Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Room 17 Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Oct 2011)
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Public domain photographs:
Daniel Sheikh      
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

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

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