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LEW 97223 comparison table
Subject has sediment mechanism has oxidized iron content has metal abundance has part mean Ni content of sulfide has age has refractory inclusion abundance is an instance of has part feldspar has part metal maximum bulk has fall location has name has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene has chondrule abundance has part chondrule has oxidation state has total mass of find has structural state of low Ca pyroxene has peak temperature has parent body has part matrix has matrix abundance has petrologic type range has part carbon is a kind of has find date has part water has number of find has synonym has chondrule mean diameter
Antarctic meteorite         indicated by letters in the beginning of name3 or 4 letter contracted from find location then last two digits of year then id number    485755 kg       meteoriterecovery year is first 2 numbers in name 1691  
ungrouped enstatite chondriteagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszeroin volume %in weight %oldest and most primitive rock in solar systemin volume % usually plagioclase tectosilicatein weight %strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocitybased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurreddefinition goes herein volume %small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted mineralshighly reduced with very little FeO234 kgdefinition goes hereless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diameterfine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituentsin volume %which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphismin weight %enstatite chondrite 0 % by weight (approximately)16E chondritemillimeters
LEW 97223agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszeroin volume %in weight %oldest and most primitive rock in solar systemin volume %Antarctic meteoriteusually plagioclase tectosilicatein weight %Lewis Cliffs, AntarcticaLEW 97223definition goes herein volume %small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted mineralshighly reduced with very little FeO485755 kgdefinition goes hereless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diameterfine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituentsin volume %which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphismin weight % 19970 % by weight (approximately)1691E chondritemillimeters

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