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H6 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	has original mass	have composition	has fall description	has find date	has comment	has orthopyroxene shock metamorphism	has plagioclase shock metamorphism	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 value	has fall coordinate	has ablative mass loss
ALH 88119	low						85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	thermal metamorphism	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site										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	H6 chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Etter	low						85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	thermal metamorphism	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site										Etter		Moore County, Texas, USA	H6 chondrite			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Hebron	low						85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	thermal metamorphism	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	greater than 21.82 kg	olivine, Fa19.8; pyroxene Fs17.2Wo1.2; shock stage S3; weathering grade W3		Summet 1965							Hebron		Thayer County, Nebraska, USA	H6 chondrite			Latitude 40 degrees 10 minutes North, Longitude 97 degrees 36 minutes West	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Jilin	low						85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	thermal metamorphism	March 8, 1976, 1500 hrs	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site	28.6% iron									Jilin		Jilin, China	H6 chondrite			44° 0' N, 126° 30' E	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Mulga North	which depends on its composition					can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents		during meteor phase which depends on composition	thermal metamorphism	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site			1964					2.42 kg		Mulga North		Western Australia	meteorite find		lower because the fall was not witnessed	30° 11' S., 126° 22' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity
Peekskill	which depends on its composition					negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins		during meteor phase which depends on composition	thermal metamorphism	7:48 pm October 9, 1992	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site		what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments		only recovered piece collided with a car				12.4 kg		Peekskill		207 Wells St.	meteorite fall		higher because the fall was witnessed	41° 17' N., 73° 55' W.	directly proportional to initial velocity
Portales Valley	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	7:32 am June 13, 1998	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site		what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments			sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	unshocked	80 kg	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	Portales Valley	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	eastern New Mexico	S1 shock stage chondrite	S1	higher because the fall was witnessed	34° 10.5' N., 103° 17.7' W.	directly proportional to initial velocity

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