| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Northwest Africa 6500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Northwest Africa 6500 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 6500 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass:  311 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 33 approved meteorites classified as LL3.8. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 24 Apr 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 100:
Northwest Africa 6500 (NWA 6500) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: Feb 2009 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL3.8) Petrography: Chondrules average about 500-600 μm, typical for LL3 chondrites. Chondrules lack glass. Many of the low-Ca pyroxene grains exhibit polysynthetic twins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB100 Table 1 Line 1398: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) JUtas: Jason Utas, United States (private address; updated 8 Jun 2010) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 9305 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1873 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||