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R chondrite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has part carbon	has alteration temperature range	has olivine shock metamorphism	has part matrix	is independent of	has shock pressure	has acronym	has degree of aqueous alteration	has petrologic subtype	has image	has weather	has degree of secondary process	has part feldspar	has relative abundance	has fragmentation probability	has metamorphism mechanism	has weathering stage	has chondrule glass type	has part sulfide Ni content	has part maximum bulk Ni in metal	has number of find	has petrologic type	has find date	has part water	has comment	has degree of thermal metamorphism	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 structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has value	has fall coordinate	has olivine and low Ca pyroxene homogeneity	has ablative mass loss	has total mass of find	has part chondrule
Carlisle Lakes	low	in weight %			fine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents									usually plagioclase tectosilicate	85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite						1030	3 to 6		0 % by weight (approximately)								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	R chondrite		definition goes here		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude		high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	20461 kg	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals
DaG 013	which depends on its composition	in weight %			fine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents			DaG		3.5		can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents		usually plagioclase tectosilicate		during meteor phase which depends on composition						1691	3 to 6	1994-1995	0 % by weight (approximately)						0.205 kg		DaG 013		Dar al Gani plateau, Libyan Sahara Desert	Dar al Gani meteorite		definition goes here	lower because the fall was not witnessed	27° 07.77' N., 16° 20.61' E.		directly proportional to initial velocity	485755 kg	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals
HaH 119	which depends on its composition	less than 0.2 % by weight	the range over at which the alteration took place	planar fractures, undulatory extinction, irregular fractures	transparent, recrystallized, small crystals	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	15 to 20 GPa	HaH				can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents	providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid	secondary, grains than 2 microns		during meteor phase which depends on composition	thermal metamorphism	W4	devitrified, absent	less than 0.5 % by weight	greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship	1691	4	April 1995	less than 1.5 % by weight	unbecciated	weak	clinoenstatite lamellae on (100), undulatory extinction, planar fractures, irregular fractures	undulatory extinction	weakly shocked	0.352 kg	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	HaH 119	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Hammadah al Hamra	S3 shock stage chondrite	S3	greater than 20 % monoclinic	lower because the fall was not witnessed	28° 30.87' N., 12° 53.81' E.	less than 5 % mean deviations	directly proportional to initial velocity	485755 kg	chondrules well defined
Rumuruti	low	0.2 to 1 % by weight			clastic and minor opaque				none					minor primary grains only	85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite			clear, isotropic, variable abundance	less than 0.5 % by weight	greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship	1030	3		0.3 to 3 % by weight		none						Rumuruti		Sahara	type 3 chondrite		predominantly monoclinic		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	greater than 5 % deviations	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	20461 kg	chondrules very sharply defined
Sahara 98248	low	in weight %			fine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents									usually plagioclase tectosilicate	85.7 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite						1030	3 to 6		0 % by weight (approximately)								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	R chondrite		definition goes here		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude		high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	20461 kg	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals

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