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brachinite comparison table

Subject	has augite grain size	has weather resistance	is an instance of	has fragmentation probability	has fall location	has name	has genesi	has weather	has identification date	has relative abundance	has texture	has value	has total mass of find	has fall coordinate	has composition	has olivine grain size	has find date	has mass	has grain size	has image	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss
ALH 84025	up to 2.7 millimeters	which depends on its composition	Antarctic meteorite	during meteor phase which depends on composition	indicated by letters in the beginning of name	ALH 84025							485755 kg	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	often minerals not found on Earth	up to 1.8 millimeters	1984				1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity
Brachina		low	brachinite	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	Brachina	fractional crystallization			7.1 % of meteorite falls	equigranular		1606 kg	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine and some clinopyroxene				0.1 to 0.3 millimeters		70	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Eagles Nest		low	brachinite	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	Eagles Nest	fractional crystallization			7.1 % of meteorite falls			1606 kg	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine and some clinopyroxene						70	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Hughes 026		low	brachinite	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	Hughes 026	fractional crystallization			7.1 % of meteorite falls	equigranular		1606 kg	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine and some clinopyroxene				0.65 millimeters		70	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Nova 003		low	brachinite	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	Nova 003	fractional crystallization			7.1 % of meteorite falls			1606 kg	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine and some clinopyroxene						70	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
Reid 013		which depends on its composition	meteorite find	during meteor phase which depends on composition	Nullarbor, Western Australia	Reid 013		can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents				lower because the fall was not witnessed	485755 kg	30° 05' S., 128° 55' E.	often minerals not found on Earth		1991	0.330 kg			1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity

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