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Northwest Africa 14038
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14038
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14038
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 2.07 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 452 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 8 Jun 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14038 (NWA 14038)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: December, 2020

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Mauritania.

Physical characteristics: Dark-brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with abundant well defined partly flattened and densely packed chondrules (mean apparent diameter 0.72±0.42 mm) in a fine-grained strongly altered reddish matrix that contains only few pristine FeNi metal grains.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Mauritania
Date:P December, 2020
Mass (g):2074
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):12.3±11.0 (0.1-40.6, n=26)
Ferrosilite (mol%):12.0±7.9 (0.8-20.8, n=40)
Wollastonite (mol%):0.9±0.8 (0.3-3.2, n=40)
Magnetic suscept.:3.3
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):20.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Martin Goff
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections		 MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9111 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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