chondritic meteorite characteristic Comparison Table

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chondritic meteorite characteristic comparison table

Subject has diameter has composition is part of has relative volume has abundance has texture has definition

chondrite matrix silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents chondrite fine grained disequilibrium mixture of low temperature materials from the Sun's protoplanetary nebula

chondrite matrix component chondrite matrix

chondrule usually less than 1 mm but can range from 0.1 to 10 millimeters glass chondrite 80 % of volume of ordinary and enstatite chondrite and greater than 15 % of most other chondrite groups most abundant part of chondrite meteorite small sphere of about 1 mm diameter found in meteorites chondrule is composed of formerly melted or partially melted minerals

Subject	has diameter	has composition	is part of	has relative volume	has abundance	has texture	has definition
chondrite matrix		silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents	chondrite				fine grained disequilibrium mixture of low temperature materials from the Sun's protoplanetary nebula
chondrite matrix component			chondrite matrix
chondrule	usually less than 1 mm but can range from 0.1 to 10 millimeters	glass	chondrite	80 % of volume of ordinary and enstatite chondrite and greater than 15 % of most other chondrite groups	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite		small sphere of about 1 mm diameter found in meteorites chondrule is composed of formerly melted or partially melted minerals

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