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Northwest Africa 14224
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14224
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14224
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 432 g
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 18 Sep 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14224 (NWA 14224)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 June

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Talsint, Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly flattened, and packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a more fine-grained dark grayish matrix that contains sulfides and rare FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Talsint, Morocco
Date:P 2021 June
Mass (g):432
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):16.2±10.7 (0.8-44.0, n=37)
Ferrosilite (mol%):11.8±7.9 (2.4-23.9, n=28)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0±0.9 (0.3-3.5, n=28)
Magnetic suscept.:4.25
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):32.4
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Noreddine Azelmat
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 9116 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names)

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