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Yilmia comparison table
Subject has sediment mechanism has oxidized iron content has metal abundance has part mean Ni content of sulfide has alteration temperature range has age has refractory inclusion abundance is an instance of has total iron content has olivine and low Ca pyroxene homogeneity has part feldspar has part metal maximum bulk has fall location has metamorphism mechanism has degree of secondary process has name has chondrule glass type has weather has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene has chondrule abundance has part chondrule has oxidation state has value has total mass of find has structural state of low Ca pyroxene has peak temperature has parent body has part matrix has degree of thermal metamorphism has matrix abundance has petrologic type range has fall coordinate has part carbon has petrologic type has part maximum bulk Ni in metal is a kind of has find date has part water has mass has image has number of find has synonym has definition has chondrule mean diameter has part sulfide Ni content
EL6 chondriteagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszero15 % by volumein weight %the range over at which the alteration took placeoldest and most primitive rock in solar system0.1 to 1 % by volume lowhomogeneoussecondary, grains greater than 50 micronsin weight %strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocitythermal metamorphismproviding insight into geological evolution of parent asteroidbased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurreddevitrified, absent definition goes here60 to 80 % by volumechondrules poorly definedhighly reduced with very little FeO 59 kgorthorhombicless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diametertransparent, recrystallized, coarse crystalsstrongless than 2 to 15 % by volumewhich depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphismin degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitudeless than 0.2 % by weight3 to 6greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationshipE6 chondrite less than 1.5 % by weight  8E chondrite 0.6 millimetersless than 0.5 % by weight
meteorite find            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 witnessed485755 kg       in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude   meteoritewhen the meteorite was found   1691 a meteorite whose fall was not witnessed  
Yilmiaagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieszero15 % by volumein weight %the range over at which the alteration took placeoldest and most primitive rock in solar system0.1 to 1 % by volumemeteorite findlowhomogeneoussecondary, grains greater than 50 micronsin weight %Western Australiathermal metamorphismproviding insight into geological evolution of parent asteroidYilmiadevitrified, absentcan be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agentsdefinition goes here60 to 80 % by volumechondrules poorly definedhighly reduced with very little FeOlower because the fall was not witnessed485755 kgorthorhombicless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diametertransparent, recrystallized, coarse crystalsstrongless than 2 to 15 % by volumewhich depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism31° 11' 30" S., 121° 32' E.less than 0.2 % by weight3 to 6greater than 20 % by weight, kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship 1969less than 1.5 % by weight24 kg
1691E chondrite 0.6 millimetersless than 0.5 % by weight

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