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Northwest Africa 14796
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14796
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14796
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 129.2 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 8 May 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 14796 (NWA 14796)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 27 Oct 2014

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

History: Purchased from a Moroccan dealer at the Munich Mineral Show, Germany

Physical characteristics: Light to dark grayish individual mainly without fusion crust. Cut face reveals light-gray, brecciated, interior with larger mineral and lithic clasts up to 5 mm. Common metal inclusions. Magnetic susceptibility, measured on two fragments is log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.48 and log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.18, with an average 4.33.

Petrography: Lithic and mineral clasts (up to several mm) set in clastic matrix. Main minerals are low-Ca pyroxene, plagioclase. Minor and accessory minerals include kamacite (5 vol%), ilmenite, chromite, troilite.

Geochemistry: Low-Ca pyroxene: diogenitic Fs28.5±4.1Wo2.8±1.6 (n=38), eucritic Fs47.4±5.9Wo5.9±2.3 (n=5), overall FeO/MnO=32.9±7.4 (n=43). Plagioclase An89.6±5.0Ab10.1±4.7Or0.3±0.3 (n=16), range An78.7-96.3.

Classification: Achondrite (howardite). Diogenite material, mainly as lithic clasts, makes up about 30 vol% of the meteorite.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Munich
Date:P 27 Oct 2014
Mass (g):129.2
Pieces:1
Class:Howardite
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Magnetic suscept.:4.33
Classifier:K. Klemm, M. Patzek, ifP
Type spec mass (g):23.5
Type spec location:IfP
Main mass:Andreas Koppelt
Comments:Working name K1415; submitted by Klemm K.
Institutions
   and collections		 IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 111, in preparation (2022)
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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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