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L5 chondrite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has olivine shock metamorphism	is independent of	has shock pressure	has acronym	has olivine composition	has image	has weather	has relative abundance	has fragmentation probability	has metamorphism mechanism	has fall date	has weathering stage	have composition	has fall description	has number of fragment	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 pyroxene composition	has shock stage	has value	has fall coordinate	has ablative mass loss	classified by
Beenham	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					1937	veined				44.4 kg		Beenham		township 25, range 30E., in Union County, New Mexico	meteorite find			lower because the fall was not witnessed	36° 13 N., 103° 39' W.	directly proportional to initial velocity
Cat Mountain	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					1980/81	Impact Melt Breccia						Cat Mountain		Tucson, Arizona	meteorite find			lower because the fall was not witnessed	32° 8.9' N., 111° 6.7' W.	directly proportional to initial velocity
DaG 636	which depends on its composition	planar fractures, undulatory extinction, irregular fractures	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	15 to 20 GPa	DaG	Fa% 25.3		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	W2			3	1998	contains metal flakes	clinoenstatite lamellae on (100), undulatory extinction, planar fractures, irregular fractures	undulatory extinction	weakly shocked	2.975 kg	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Dar al Gani plateau, Libyan Sahara Desert	L5 chondrite	Fs% 21.2	S3	lower because the fall was not witnessed	26° 52.86' N. 16° 32.95' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity	A. Sexton, Open University, UK. Meteoritical Bulletin No 84
Ghubara	low						meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	thermal metamorphism	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		21.33% iron. Black xenolithic, unequilbrated host			1954							Ghubara		Ghubara, Oman	L5 chondrite				Latitude 19 degrees 13 minutes 40 seconds North, Longitude 56 degrees 8 minutes 34 seconds East	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Mount Tazerzait	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	August 21, 1991			what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments				sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	sharp optical extinction, irregular fractures	unshocked	110 kg	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	Mt. Tazerzait	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Tahoua, Republic of Niger	S1 shock stage chondrite		S1	higher because the fall was witnessed	18° 42' N., 4° 48' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity

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