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Northwest Africa 14064
Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 14064
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 14064
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass:help 24.5 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 280 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 24 Jul 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Northwest Africa 14064 (NWA 14064)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: 2021 Mar

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

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

Physical characteristics: Several small sand-colored fragments without fusion crust.

Petrography: Fragmental breccia composed of up to 1 cm feldspathic clasts in fine-grained partly shock molten matrix with flow textures. Minerals are predominantly plagioclase and olivine indicating the presence of abundant troctolitic material; augite and pigeonite are rare. Some olivines contain augite-chromite symplectites. Accessory phases are: FeS, ilmenite, Ti-bearing chromite, and silica as well as secondary barite, strontianite, and calcite.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa27.8±10.8 (Fa15.0-42.2, FeO/MnO=87±9, n=28); pigeonite: Fs27.7±3.6Wo11.1±1.4 (Fs23.8-32.6Wo8.3-13.5, FeO/MnO=55±6, n=17); Ca-pyroxene: Fs14.7±1.2Wo38.0±2.9 (Fs13.0-18.3Wo30.1-42.5, FeO/MnO=45±7, n=12); calcic plagioclase: An96.1±0.6 (An95.4-97.4, n=13)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:P 2021 Mar
Mass (g):24.5
Pieces:several
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:high
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):27.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):27.7; 14.7
Wollastonite (mol%):11.1; 38.0
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):5.6
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:David Göttlich
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 110, in preparation (2021)
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Geography: 
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 8559 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1896 unapproved names)

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