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Ghardaïa 001
Basic information Name: Ghardaïa 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2020
Country: Algeria
Mass:help 760 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  Lunar (feldsp. breccia)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 276 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia).   [show all]
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Comments: Approved 6 May 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Ghardaïa 001        32°43’43.1"N, 04°28’47.9"E

Ghardaia, Algeria

Purchased: November, 2020

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: The meteorite was found south of El Guerrara, Algeria and subsequently purchased by the main mass holders.

Physical characteristics: Many grayish fragments some of which almost completely covered by fusion crust.

Petrography: Fragmental breccia composed of mineral fragments, basaltic, gabbroic, and impact melt clasts set in a fine-grained partly shock-melted groundmass often showing flow textures . Most abundant minerals are calcic plagioclase, olivine, and exsolved pyroxene. Minor phases include ilmenite, apatite, and FeS. Cracks are often filled with secondary calcite.

Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs21.3±0.5Wo4.6±0.9 (Fs20.4-21.8Wo3.0-6.1, FeO/MnO=48±4, n=9); Ca-pyroxene: Fs14.2±2.5Wo36.1±5.7 (Fs11.5-17.9Wo38.3-42.2, FeO/MnO=43±4, n=7); olivine: Fa28.4±0.6 (Fa27.5-29.1, FeO/MnO=84±7, n=11); calcic plagioclase: An96.8±0.5 (An96.3-97.7, n=9)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Ghardaia
Place of purchase:Algeria
Date:P November, 2020
Latitude:32°43'43.1"N
Longitude:04°28'47.9"E
Mass (g):760
Pieces:many
Class:Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:moderate
Weathering grade:moderate
Fayalite (mol%):28.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.3; 14.2
Wollastonite (mol%):4.6; 36.1
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):31.1
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Chnaoui Larbi and Lucian Cojocaru
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:

Algeria
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (32° 43' 43"N, 4° 28' 48"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Ghardaia, Algeria
     This is 1 of 1195 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 28 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters)
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