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EH6 chondrite comparison table

Subject	has sediment mechanism	has weather resistance	has oxidized iron content	has metal abundance	has part mean Ni content of sulfide	has alteration temperature range	has age	fragment	has refractory inclusion abundance	survive fall if	is an instance of	has total iron content	has olivine and low Ca pyroxene homogeneity	vaporize completely if	has part feldspar	has fragmentation probability	has part metal maximum bulk	be associated with	has fall location	has fall date	has impact angle	has metamorphism mechanism	has degree of secondary process	has name	has genesi	has chondrule glass type	has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene	has chondrule abundance	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has part chondrule	has oxidation state	has total mass of find	has structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has peak temperature	has impact velocity	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	has composition	has monetary value	has original mass	has part mineral	has part water	has origin	has number of find	has ablative mass loss	produce	has synonym	has chondrule mean diameter	have crater image	has part sulfide Ni content	has fall map
LEW 88180	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	which depends on its composition	zero	8 % by volume	in weight %	the range over at which the alteration took place	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	during meteor phase	0.1 to 1 % by volume	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	EH6 chondrite	high	homogeneous	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	secondary, grains greater than 50 microns	during meteor phase which depends on composition	in weight %	crater	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		thermal metamorphism	providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		devitrified, absent	definition goes here	60 to 80 % by volume		during impact phase		chondrules poorly defined	highly reduced with very little FeO	59 kg	orthorhombic	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	transparent, recrystallized, coarse crystals	strong	less than 2 to 15 % by volume	which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	less than 0.2 % by weight	3 to 5	greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship	often minerals not found on Earth	large if the fall was witnessed	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site		less than 1.5 % by weight	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	8	directly proportional to initial velocity	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	E chondrite	0.2 millimeters		less than 0.5 % by weight	which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity

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