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Abee comparison table
Subject has sediment mechanism has oxidized iron content has metal abundance has part mean Ni content of sulfide has alteration temperature range has age has refractory inclusion abundance is an instance of has total iron content has olivine and low Ca pyroxene homogeneity has part feldspar has part metal maximum bulk has fall location has fall date has metamorphism mechanism has degree of secondary process has name has chondrule glass type has weather has fall description has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene has chondrule abundance has part chondrule has oxidation state has value has total mass of find has structural state of low Ca pyroxene has peak temperature has parent body has part matrix has degree of thermal metamorphism has matrix abundance has petrologic type range has fall coordinate has part carbon has petrologic type has part maximum bulk Ni in metal is a kind of has comment has part water has mass has image has number of find has synonym has definition has chondrule mean diameter has part sulfide Ni content
EH4 chondriteagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszero8 % by volumein weight %the range over at which the alteration took placeoldest and most primitive rock in solar system0.1 to 1 % by volume highless than 5 % mean deviationssecondary, grains than 2 micronsin weight %strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocityrecorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methodsthermal metamorphismproviding insight into geological evolution of parent asteroidbased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurreddevitrified, absent  definition goes here60 to 80 % by volumechondrules well definedhighly reduced with very little FeO 143 kggreater than 20 % monoclinicless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diametertransparent, recrystallized, small crystalsweakless than 2 to 15 % by volumewhich depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphismin degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitudeless than 0.2 % by weight3 to 5greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationshipE4 chondrite less than 1.5 % by weight  5E chondrite 0.2 millimetersless than 0.5 % by weight
meteorite fall            strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocityrecorded by eyewitness or instruments  based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion beginswhat witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments    higher because the fall was witnessed485755 kg       in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude   meteorite    1691 a meteorite whose fall was witnessed by human or electronic means  
Abeeagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszero8 % by volumein weight %the range over at which the alteration took placeoldest and most primitive rock in solar system0.1 to 1 % by volumemeteorite fallhighless than 5 % mean deviationssecondary, grains than 2 micronsin weight %Abee, Alberta11:05 pm June 9, 1952thermal metamorphismproviding insight into geological evolution of parent asteroidAbeedevitrified, absentnegligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion beginswhat witnesses saw or what was recorded by instrumentsdefinition goes here60 to 80 % by volumechondrules well definedhighly reduced with very little FeOhigher because the fall was witnessed485755 kggreater than 20 % monoclinicless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diametertransparent, recrystallized, small crystalsweakless than 2 to 15 % by volumewhich depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism54° 13' N., 113° 0' W.less than 0.2 % by weight3 to 5greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship melt breccialess than 1.5 % by weight107 kg
1691E chondrite 0.2 millimetersless than 0.5 % by weight

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