Description
Northwest Africa 6685 (NWA 6685)
(Northwest Africa)
Purchased: 2010
Classification: Primitive achondrite (Lodranite)
History: Purchased by Giorgio Tomelleri from a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco.
Physical characteristics: A complete stone weighing 524 g, with fusion crust.
Petrography: (V. Moggi Cecchi, G. Pratesi, S. Caporali MSP). The thin section is dominated by large olivine and subordinate orthopyroxene phenocrysts (to 8 mm) embedded in an interstitial fine-grained matrix of the same phases. The matrix grains range from 0.01 to 0.1 mm. Plagioclase is absent. Opaques consist of kamacite and troilite, frequently altered to iron oxides.
Geochemistry: Orthopyroxene, Fs10.7, Fe/Mn=14; olivine, Fa10.8, Fe/Mn=23; Ca-pyroxene, Fs3.4En52Wo44.6; Cr in troilite=0.60 wt%; Oxygen isotopes (I.Franchi, R.Greenwood, OU): δ17O = 0.10; δ18O = 2.50; Δ17O = -1.2 per mil.
Classification: Achondrite (lodranite). Highly weathered. Moderately shock.
Specimens: 23.4 g is on deposit at MSP (MSP 5151).
| Place of purchase: | Erfoud |
| Date: | P 2010 |
| Mass (g): | 524 |
| Pieces: | 2 |
| Class: | Lodranite |
| Fayalite (mol%): | 11 |
| Ferrosilite (mol%): | 11 |
| Wollastonite (mol%): | 1.9 |
| Classifier: | V.Moggi Cecchi, G. Pratesi, S. Caporali, MSP |
| Type spec mass (g): | 23.4 |
| Type spec location: | MSP |
| Main mass: | Unknown |
| Comments: | Submitted by Vanni Moggi Cecchi |
