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Northwest Africa 12384
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 12384
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 12384
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 244 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  Lunar (bas. breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (bas. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (bas. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 1 Jan 2019
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Northwest Africa 12384 (NWA 12384)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2018 Nov

Classification: Lunar meteorite (basaltic breccia)

History: Purchased in Agadir, Morocco, in November 2018 by Aziz Habibi.

Physical characteristics: Two dense stones (total 244 g) coated by a thin, dark brown patina, but exhibiting a very fresh, gray interior with some visible basaltic clasts.

Petrography: (P. Carpenter, WUSL and A. Irving, UWS) The specimen is a breccia consisting of rounded mare basalt clasts with intersertal texture set in a matrix of related crystalline debris. Major mineral phases are olivine, pigeonite (some zoned to ferropigeonite) and anorthite with accessory ilmenite, merrillite, fluorapatite, troilite, zirconolite, tranquillityite and FeNi metal. The basalt clasts also contain K-rich mesostasis. A fine grained vesicular shock vein crosscuts the studied sample.

Geochemistry: Olivine in breccia matrix (Fa30.0-50.4, FeO/MnO = 93-113, N = 6), pigeonite in breccia matrix (Fs30.6-31.8Wo10.4-22.7, FeO/MnO = 54-58, N = 2), pigeonite in basalt clast (cores Fs28.9-29.4Wo7.9-8.4, FeO/MnO = 50-56, N = 3; rims Fs44.8-79.6Wo16.3-20.4, FeO/MnO = 59-88, N = 3), subcalcic augite in breccia matrix (Fs24.6Wo31.5, FeO/MnO = 59), plagioclase in breccia matrix (An81.1-95.6Or1.1-0.1, N = 2), plagioclase in basalt clast (An82.3-89.7Or0.7-0.4, N = 4).

Classification: Lunar (mare basalt breccia).

Specimens: 22.3 g including one polished endcut and one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Luc Labenne.

Data from:
  MB108
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Place of purchase:Agadir
Date:P 2018 Nov
Mass (g):244
Pieces:2
Class:Lunar (bas. breccia)
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):30.0-50.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):28.9-79.6; 24.6
Wollastonite (mol%):7.9-22.7; 31.5
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):22.3
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:Labenne
Comments:Work name AH 175; submitted by A. Irving
Institutions
   and collections		 UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)
Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Ludovic Callens   
Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9429 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1876 unapproved names)

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