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Northwest Africa 14485
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14485
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14485
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 282 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Martian (shergottite)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 300 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as Martian (shergottite).   [show all]
Search for other: Martian meteorites
Comments: Approved 15 Dec 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14485 (NWA 14485)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Mar

Classification: Martian meteorite (Shergottite)

History: Purchased by Eric Twelker in March 2021 from a dealer in Agadir, Morocco.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Microgabbroic texture. Composed predominantly of zoned clinopyroxene and maskelynite with accessory ulvöspinel, ilmenite, pyrrhotite, merrillite, Ti-poor magnetite, silica polymorph and K-Na-bearing glass. Small pockets of multicolored vesicular shock glass (ranging in color within individual pockets from opaque to red-brown to pale tan with fluidal texture) are present.

Geochemistry: Pigeonite (Fs31.9-61.2Wo12.4-15.8, FeO/MnO = 29-36, N = 5), subcalcic augite (Fs21.2-23.5Wo34.9031.0, FeO/MnO = 26-30, N = 4), ferroan subcalcic augite (Fs51.1Wo23.8), maskelynite (An44.3-54.6Or2.0-1.2, N = 4).

Classification: Shergottite (microgabbroic).

Specimens: 20.4 g including one polished thin section at UWB; remainder with Twelker.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Agadir
Date:P 2021 Mar
Mass (g):282
Pieces:1
Class:Martian (shergottite)
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Ferrosilite (mol%):31.9-61.2; 21.2-23.5
Wollastonite (mol%):12.4-14.4; 31.0-34.9
Classifier:A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL
Type spec mass (g):20.4
Type spec location:UWB
Main mass:E. Twelker
Comments:Work name ET21-4; 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, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012)
Twelker: Eric Twelker, P.O. Box 844, Port Townsend, WA 98368, United States; Website (private address; updated 1 Dec 2014)
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 9370 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1875 unapproved names)

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