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CO chondrite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has olivine shock metamorphism	is independent of	has shock pressure	has acronym	has petrologic subtype	has image	has weather	has degree of secondary process	has relative abundance	has fragmentation probability	has metamorphism mechanism	has weathering stage	has number of fragment	has number of find	has find date	has orthopyroxene shock metamorphism	has plagioclase shock metamorphism	has identification date	has degree of shock metamorphism	has mass	has shock diagnostic mineral	has name	be shock	has fall location	is an instance of	has shock stage	has distribution ellipse	has value	has fall coordinate	has ablative mass loss	has total mass of find	classified by
DaG 005	which depends on its composition	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	5 to 10 GPa	DaG			can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents	providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid	8 % of meteorite falls	during meteor phase which depends on composition	shock metamorphism	W2		36	1995	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures, some planar fractures	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures		very weakly shocked		orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	DaG 005	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Dar al Gani plateau, Libyan Sahara Desert	S2 shock stage chondrite	S2		lower because the fall was not witnessed	27° 09.39' N., 15° 57.15' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity	2577 kg
Isna	which depends on its composition					3.7		can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents			during meteor phase which depends on composition				1691	1970							Isna		Nile River near Luxor, Egypt	Antarctic meteorite			lower because the fall was not witnessed	24° 50' N., 31° 40' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity	485755 kg
Ornans	low									8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite				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	CO chondrite				in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
UK 43	which depends on its composition				DaG			can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents		8 % of meteorite falls	during meteor phase which depends on composition			2000 or more	36	1999					177 kg		based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		Dar al Gani plateau, Libyan Sahara Desert	CO chondrite			lower because the fall was not witnessed	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	directly proportional to initial velocity	2577 kg	Open University, UK. Meteoritical Bulletin No 84

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