| monomict ureilite | is a kind of ureilite |  |
| has texture large, anhedral olivine and pyroxene grains | |
| has intergranular boundary curved meeting in triple junctions | |
| has gain size 1 mm | |
| has plagioclase 0 % | |
| ureilite | has letter designation AURE | |
| has characteristic mineral olivine-pigeonite about 90% by volume | |
| has matrix composition carbon, metal, sulfides small silicate grains along grain boundaries less than 10% by volume | |
| has total mass of finds 9 kg (out of date) | |
| has number of finds 6 (out of date) | |
| has minerology olivine, pyroxene (some combination of pigeonite, orthopyroxene, augite) | |
| has petrology coarse-grained granular | |
| has likely origin partial melting residue | |
| has olivine grain characteristic reduced rims contacting carbonaceous matrix material 0.1 mm FeO-free olivine and/or enstatite rims riddled with tiny inclusions of low-Ni metal | |
| asteroidal achondrite | has origin asteroid | |
| plutonic rock | has solidification mechanism cooling in deep underground chambers | |
| has solidification timescale very slow | |
| achondrite | has relative abundance 7.1 % of meteorite falls | |
| has distinguishing feature no chondrules | |
| igneous rock | has composition silicates (with very few exceptions) | |
| meteorite | has fall date recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods | |
| has fall location strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity | |
| has fall coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude | |
| has fall map which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity | |
| can have crater image | |
| has original mass which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site | |
| has impact velocity when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere | |
| has impact angle | |
| has weather resistance which depends on its composition | |
| has monetary value large if the fall was witnessed | |
| has name based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred | |
| often produce power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) | |
| can be associated with crater | |
| vaporizes completely if size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters | |
| can survive fall if size is larger than 3 mm and velocity is less than 24 km per second | |
| can survive fall if it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere | |
| has ablative mass loss depending on composition, more friable stony meteoroids loses more mass than iron meteoroid | |
| has ablative mass loss directly proportional to initial velocity | |
| can shatter during impact phase | |
| can fragment during meteor phase | |
| has fragmentation probability during meteor phase which depends on composition | |
| stony meteorite | has weather resistance low | |
| has fragmentation probability high because it is more friable than iron meteorite | |
| has ablative mass loss high because it is more friable than iron meteorite | |
| rock | has part mineral | |
| has genesis | |
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