Northwest Africa 3009

NWA 3009 (North West Africa 3009 ) is a stone meteorite was found in 2001 near Zag in Morocco.

Meteorites are usually named after the village next to the locality. The meteorite found in the deserts of North Africa, however, are usually provided with the name NWA (North West Africa ) and a serial number.

Classification

NWA 3009 has a mass of 1522 grams. The meteorite was determined in 2003 by the Mineralogical- petrographic Institute of the University of Hamburg scientifically and is in Meteoritical Bulletin No. 88 documented.

The meteorite was classified as brekziierter 4.56 billion years old chondrite Class L 4-6, with the shock class S3 and the weathering grade W2. It contains no motion visible chondrules, Fe / Ni retention and even carbonaceous inclusions (see carbonaceous chondrite ).

Origin

Like all L- chondrites he probably originates from the asteroid Eros when he collided in front of perhaps millions of years with another asteroid and fragments of the asteroid belt left on an eccentric orbit, eventually crossed the Earth's orbit and crashed as meteorites. The reflection spectra of this asteroid nearly meets with those of the L- and LL- chondrites.

To date (December 27, 2009) are classified only 25 of these L4 -6 chondrites world.

NWA 3009 is located in a private collection in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony.

Of the meteorite samples are located in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.