Tierra Blanca Comparison Table

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Tierra Blanca comparison table

Subject has sediment mechanism has weather resistance has minerology has age is an instance of has distinguishing feature has fragmentation probability has fall location has likely origin has name has weather has relative abundance has prototype has value has total mass of find has peak temperature has parent body has fall coordinate has composition is a kind of has find date has mass has image has number of find has ablative mass loss has inclusion minerology has definition has petrology

meteorite find which depends on its composition during meteor phase which depends on composition strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents lower because the fall was not witnessed 485755 kg in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude often minerals not found on Earth meteorite when the meteorite was found 1691 directly proportional to initial velocity a meteorite whose fall was not witnessed

winonaite agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories low olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, metal with some troilite and some sodic plagioclase oldest and most primitive rock in solar system no chondrules high because it is more friable than iron meteorite strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity ultrametamorphism, partial melting with some melt migration based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred 7.1 % of meteorite falls Winona meteorite 1606 kg less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude IAB-silica related primitive achondrite 70 high because it is more friable than iron meteorite troilite, metal, daubreilite, schreibersite, graphite fine- to coarse-grained equigranular

Tierra Blanca agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories which depends on its composition olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, metal with some troilite and some sodic plagioclase oldest and most primitive rock in solar system meteorite find no chondrules during meteor phase which depends on composition Tierra Blanca Creek 10 km SW of Canyon, Texas ultrametamorphism, partial melting with some melt migration Tierra Blanca can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents Winona meteorite lower because the fall was not witnessed 485755 kg less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter 34° 56' N., 102° 01' W. IAB-silica related before 1965 0.860 kg
1691 directly proportional to initial velocity troilite, metal, daubreilite, schreibersite, graphite fine- to coarse-grained equigranular

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Subject	has sediment mechanism	has weather resistance	has minerology	has age	is an instance of	has distinguishing feature	has fragmentation probability	has fall location	has likely origin	has name	has weather	has relative abundance	has prototype	has value	has total mass of find	has peak temperature	has parent body	has fall coordinate	has composition	is a kind of	has find date	has mass	has image	has number of find	has ablative mass loss	has inclusion minerology	has definition	has petrology
meteorite find		which depends on its composition					during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity		based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents			lower because the fall was not witnessed	485755 kg			in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite	when the meteorite was found			1691	directly proportional to initial velocity		a meteorite whose fall was not witnessed
winonaite	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	low	olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, metal with some troilite and some sodic plagioclase	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system		no chondrules	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	ultrametamorphism, partial melting with some melt migration	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		7.1 % of meteorite falls	Winona meteorite		1606 kg	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	IAB-silica related	primitive achondrite				70	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	troilite, metal, daubreilite, schreibersite, graphite		fine- to coarse-grained equigranular
Tierra Blanca	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	which depends on its composition	olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, metal with some troilite and some sodic plagioclase	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	meteorite find	no chondrules	during meteor phase which depends on composition	Tierra Blanca Creek 10 km SW of Canyon, Texas	ultrametamorphism, partial melting with some melt migration	Tierra Blanca	can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents		Winona meteorite	lower because the fall was not witnessed	485755 kg	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	34° 56' N., 102° 01' W.	IAB-silica related		before 1965	0.860 kg		1691	directly proportional to initial velocity	troilite, metal, daubreilite, schreibersite, graphite		fine- to coarse-grained equigranular