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META 78008
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META 78008	is an instance of bi-modal ureilite
	is an instance of medium shock ureilite
	is an instance of meteorite find
	has olivine composition Fo% 77
	has pigeonite composition Wo% 16 En% 66
	has orthopyroxene composition Wo% 4.5 En% 76
	has augite composition Wo% 32 En% 55
	has pyroxene content 0.05, 0.37 in modal pyroxene/(pryroxene+olivine)
	has reference Takeda et al. (1989)
bi-modal ureilite	has texture bi-modal with extremely large 15mm crystals of low-Ca pyroxene poikilitically enclosing domains with ureilite texture
medium shock ureilite	has shock stage S4-S6
	has degree of shock metamorphism medium
	has shock pressure from 20 GPa to 100 GPa
	has shock diagnostic mineral diamonds and/or lonsdaleite
	has shock texture greater extent of fracturing, undulatory extinction, and kink banding
	has olivine shock metamorphism sub-grain boundaries may be prominent
	has pyroxene shock metamorphism may be cloudy due to glassy inclusions
meteorite find	has find date when the meteorite was found
	has value lower because the fall was not witnessed
	has weathering can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents
ureilite	has letter designation AURE
	has characteristic mineral olivine-pigeonite about 90% by volume
	has matrix composition carbon, metal, sulfides small silicate grains along grain boundaries less than 10% by volume
	has total mass of finds 9 kg (out of date)
	has number of finds 6 (out of date)
	has minerology olivine, pyroxene (some combination of pigeonite, orthopyroxene, augite)
	has petrology coarse-grained granular
	has likely origin partial melting residue
	has olivine grain characteristic reduced rims contacting carbonaceous matrix material 0.1 mm FeO-free olivine and/or enstatite rims riddled with tiny inclusions of low-Ni metal
meteorite	has fall date recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods
	has fall location strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity
	has fall coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude
	has fall map which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity
	can have crater image
	has original mass which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site
	has composition often minerals not found on Earth
	has relative abundance
	has total mass of finds 485755 kg
	has number of finds 1691
	has impact velocity when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere
	has impact angle
	has weather resistance which depends on its composition
	has monetary value large if the fall was witnessed
	has name based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred
	often produce power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)
	can be associated with crater
	has origin meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal
	vaporizes completely if size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters
	can survive fall if size is larger than 3 mm and velocity is less than 24 km per second
	can survive fall if it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere
	has ablative mass loss depending on composition, more friable stony meteoroids loses more mass than iron meteoroid
	has ablative mass loss directly proportional to initial velocity
	can shatter during impact phase
	can fragment during meteor phase
	has fragmentation probability during meteor phase which depends on composition
shocked meteorite	has metamorphism mechanism shock metamorphism
rock	has part mineral
	has genesis
plutonic rock	has solidification mechanism cooling in deep underground chambers
	has solidification timescale very slow
achondrite	has distinguishing feature no chondrules

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