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meteorite characteristic comparison table

Subject	has color	has weather resistance	has texture	has extent	are coherent over	occur	be oserved in	has definition	is part of	has composition	has thickness	has part	be different
iron meteorite characteristic
magnetism
meteorite fusion crust	black except for rare iron-poor meteorites			directly proportional to the initial velocity of a meteoroid				melted glassy exterior of meteorite that forms by ablation during meteor phase	meteorite		varies from front to rear on oriented meteorites, thicker in the rear since ablated material accumulates toward the rear	striations due to flow of ablated material during meteor phase especially on oriented meteorites	from interior of meteorite
piezoglypt								pit on meteorite surface
stone meteorite characteristic
Widmanstatten figure					original gamma-iron crytstals	in terrestrial iron ores	cut and polished meteorite sections etched with nitric acid	intergrowth of kamacite plates bordered by taenite on octahedral faces of octahedrite meteorites (exsolution lamellae)	octahedrite

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