| Bilanga | has image
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| is an instance of diogenite | |
| is an instance of meteorite fall | |
| is an instance of oriented meteorite | |
| has name Bilanga | |
| has fall date 10:30 am October 27, 1999 | |
| has fall coordinates 12° 27' N., 0° 05' W. | |
| has fall location Bilanga Yanga and Gomponsago, Burkina Faso, Africa | |
| has mass 25 kg | |
| diogenite | has letter designation ADIO | |
| has characteristic mineral hyperstene | |
| has total mass of finds 68 kg | |
| has number of finds 8 | |
| meteorite fall | has value higher because the fall was witnessed | |
| has fall description what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments | |
| has weathering negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins | |
| oriented meteorite | has shape conical from preferential ablation during atmospheric passage | |
| has probability of occurence 5 % of stony meteorites | |
| has probability of occurence 28 % of iron meteorites | |
| has probability of occurence higher for non-spherical, flattened or angular meteoroids | |
| HED meteorite | is an acronym for Howardite, Eucrite, Diogenite | |
| has origin 4 Vesta | |
| has minerology orthopyroxene, olivine, chromite; pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica | |
| has petrology coarse-grained orthopyroxenites, gabbros, fine- to coarse-grained basalts, brecciated | |
| has likely origin cumulates, crystallized melts, impact mixing | |
| meteorite | has fall map which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity | |
| can have crater image | |
| has original mass which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site | |
| has composition often minerals not found on Earth | |
| has relative abundance | |
| has impact velocity when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere | |
| has impact angle | |
| has weather resistance which depends on its composition | |
| has monetary value large if the fall was witnessed | |
| often produce power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) | |
| can be associated with crater | |
| has origin meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal | |
| vaporizes completely if size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters | |
| can survive fall if size is larger than 3 mm and velocity is less than 24 km per second | |
| can survive fall if it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere | |
| has ablative mass loss depending on composition, more friable stony meteoroids loses more mass than iron meteoroid | |
| has ablative mass loss directly proportional to initial velocity | |
| can shatter during impact phase | |
| can fragment during meteor phase | |
| has fragmentation probability during meteor phase which depends on composition | |
| plutonic rock | has solidification mechanism cooling in deep underground chambers | |
| has solidification timescale very slow | |
| fractional crystallized rock | has genesis fractional crystallization | |
| rock | has part mineral | |
| has texture | |
| has genesis | |
| gravitationally separated rock | has property formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field | |
| achondrite | has distinguishing feature no chondrules | |
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