Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Northwest Africa 2216

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Northwest Africa 2216

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 2216
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 2216
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 345 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 91	(2007)	Ureilite
Recommended:			Ureilite [explanation]

This is 1 of 604 approved meteorites classified as Ureilite. [show all]
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Comments:

Approved 1 Sep 2006

Data from:
  MB91
  Table 2
  Line 75:

Place of purchase:	Denver, Colorado
Mass (g):	345
Pieces:	1
Class:	Ure
Shock stage:	S1
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	12.3 ± 4.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):	18.5 ± 0.2
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	20.5
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	ROM
Comments:	Pigeonite Fs18.5±0.2, Wo10.3±0.1

Institutions
and collections

ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011)
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 91, MAPS 42, 413-466 (2007)

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Geography:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 8390 approved meteorites from (Northwest Africa) (plus 1899 unapproved names)

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