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CM chondrite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has olivine shock metamorphism	is independent of	has shock pressure	has image	has weather	has relative abundance	has fragmentation probability	has metamorphism mechanism	has fall date	have composition	has fall description	has number of find	has orthopyroxene shock metamorphism	has plagioclase shock metamorphism	has degree of shock metamorphism	has shock diagnostic mineral	has name	be shock	has fall location	is an instance of	has shock stage	has value	has fall coordinate	has ablative mass loss	has total mass of find
ALH 84034	low						8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	aqueous altermation	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			36					based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	CM chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
ALH 88045	low						8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	aqueous altermation	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			36					based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	CM chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
EET 83334	low						8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	aqueous altermation	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			36					based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	CM chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
Mighei	low						8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	aqueous altermation	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			36					based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	CM chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
Murchison	which depends on its composition	sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	less than 5 GPa		negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins		during meteor phase which depends on composition	shock metamorphism	September 28, 1969 10:45 am	contain amino acids	what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments	1691	sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	unshocked	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	Murchison	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Murchison, Victoria, Australia	S1 shock stage chondrite	S1	higher because the fall was witnessed	36° 37' S., 145° 12' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity	485755 kg

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