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oriented meteorite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has probability of occurence	has minerology	fragment	has shape	survive fall if	is an instance of	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 fall description	has weather	has letter designation	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has value	has total mass of find	has impact velocity	has fall coordinate	has characteristic mineral	has composition	has original mass	has monetary value	has part mineral	has property	has mass	has image	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	produce	has solidification timescale	have crater image	be an acronym for	has fall map	has petrology
Bilanga	which depends on its composition	higher for non-spherical, flattened or angular meteoroids	orthopyroxene, olivine, chromite; pigeonite, calcic plagioclase, silica	during meteor phase	conical from preferential ablation during atmospheric passage	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	oriented meteorite	no chondrules	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	during meteor phase which depends on composition	crater	Bilanga Yanga and Gomponsago, Burkina Faso, Africa	10:30 am October 27, 1999		cumulates, crystallized melts, impact mixing	cooling in deep underground chambers	Bilanga		what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments	negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins	ADIO		during impact phase		higher because the fall was witnessed	68 kg	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	12° 27' N., 0° 05' W.	hyperstene	often minerals not found on Earth	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		formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field	25 kg		8	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	very slow		Howardite, Eucrite, Diogenite	which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	coarse-grained orthopyroxenites, gabbros, fine- to coarse-grained basalts, brecciated

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