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Subject has weather resistance has minerology fragment survive fall if has distinguishing feature vaporize completely if has fragmentation probability be associated with has fall location has fall date has impact angle has likely origin has solidification mechanism has name has genesi has relative abundance shatter has texture has prototype has total mass of find has impact velocity has fall coordinate has composition has original mass has monetary value is a kind of has part mineral has property has number of find has origin has ablative mass loss produce has solidification timescale have crater image has fall map has petrology

brachinite low olivine, augite, Fe-sulfide, some orthopyroxene and some sodic plagioclase during meteor phase it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere no chondrules size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters high because it is more friable than iron meteorite crater strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods metamorphosed chondrite, partial melting residue cooling in deep underground chambers based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred fractional crystallization 7.1 % of meteorite falls during impact phase Brachina meteorite 1606 kg when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude olivine and some clinopyroxene which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site large if the fall was witnessed dunitic wehrlite formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field 70 asteroid high because it is more friable than iron meteorite power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) very slow which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity medium- to coarse-grained equigranular

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Subject	has weather resistance	has minerology	fragment	survive fall if	has distinguishing feature	vaporize completely if	has fragmentation probability	be associated with	has fall location	has fall date	has impact angle	has likely origin	has solidification mechanism	has name	has genesi	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has prototype	has total mass of find	has impact velocity	has fall coordinate	has composition	has original mass	has monetary value	is a kind of	has part mineral	has property	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	produce	has solidification timescale	have crater image	has fall map	has petrology
brachinite	low	olivine, augite, Fe-sulfide, some orthopyroxene and some sodic plagioclase	during meteor phase	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	no chondrules	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	crater	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		metamorphosed chondrite, partial melting residue	cooling in deep underground chambers	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	fractional crystallization	7.1 % of meteorite falls	during impact phase		Brachina meteorite	1606 kg	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine and some clinopyroxene	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site	large if the fall was witnessed	dunitic wehrlite		formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field	70	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	very slow		which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	medium- to coarse-grained equigranular