conglomerate Comparison Table

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conglomerate comparison table

Subject has name fragment has impact velocity has origin shatter has peak temperature has number of find be associated with has genesi has fall date has sediment mechanism is a kind of has parent body has fall map has weather resistance has fall coordinate has fragmentation probability produce has monetary value has total mass of find has texture have crater image has fall location survive fall if has impact angle has part has definition has part mineral vaporize completely if has original mass has relative abundance has age has composition has ablative mass loss

undifferentiated meteorite based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred during meteor phase when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal during impact phase less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification 1691 crater recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories conglomerate asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity which depends on its composition in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude during meteor phase which depends on composition power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) large if the fall was witnessed 485755 kg strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere interstellar grains as minor inclusions a primitive meteorite which has not been differentiated within a large asteroid size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site oldest and most primitive rock in solar system often minerals not found on Earth directly proportional to initial velocity

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Subject	has name	fragment	has impact velocity	has origin	shatter	has peak temperature	has number of find	be associated with	has genesi	has fall date	has sediment mechanism	is a kind of	has parent body	has fall map	has weather resistance	has fall coordinate	has fragmentation probability	produce	has monetary value	has total mass of find	has texture	have crater image	has fall location	survive fall if	has impact angle	has part	has definition	has part mineral	vaporize completely if	has original mass	has relative abundance	has age	has composition	has ablative mass loss
undifferentiated meteorite	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	during meteor phase	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	during impact phase	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	1691	crater		recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	conglomerate	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	which depends on its composition	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	during meteor phase which depends on composition	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	large if the fall was witnessed	485755 kg			strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere		interstellar grains as minor inclusions	a primitive meteorite which has not been differentiated within a large asteroid		size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site		oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	often minerals not found on Earth	directly proportional to initial velocity