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Northwest Africa 14407

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 14407
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14407
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 102 g

Classification
history:

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LL3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 451 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 31 Oct 2021

Writeup

Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14407 (NWA 14407)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Aug

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3)

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

Physical characteristics: Brownish fragment without fusion crust.

Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly rounded and partly packed chondrules (mean diameter about 0.9 mm) in a fine-grained dark brownish matrix that contains sulfides and rare, mostly altered FeNi metal.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
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Place of purchase:	Talsint, Morocco
Date:	P 2021 Aug
Mass (g):	102
Pieces:	2
Class:	LL3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	15.2±10.0 (5.8-38.7, n=20)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	11.5±8.3 (1.0-23.8, n=17)
Wollastonite (mol%):	0.9±0.5 (0.3-2.3, n=17)
Magnetic suscept.:	3.59
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	26.5
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 9092 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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