orthopyroxenite Comparison Table

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orthopyroxenite comparison table

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

ALH 84001 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 Mars during impact phase 70 crater recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods fractional crystallization prototype ALH 84001 meteorite orthopyroxenite which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field low in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude high because it is more friable than iron meteorite power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) large if the fall was witnessed no chondrules cooling in deep underground chambers 1606 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 very slow 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 7.1 % of meteorite falls orthopyroxene high because it is more friable than iron meteorite

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Subject	has name	fragment	has impact velocity	has origin	shatter	has number of find	be associated with	has fall date	has genesi	have	is a kind of	has fall map	has property	has weather resistance	has fall coordinate	has fragmentation probability	produce	has monetary value	has distinguishing feature	has solidification mechanism	has total mass of find	has texture	have crater image	has fall location	survive fall if	has impact angle	has solidification timescale	has part mineral	vaporize completely if	has original mass	has relative abundance	has composition	has ablative mass loss
ALH 84001 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	Mars	during impact phase	70	crater	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	fractional crystallization	prototype ALH 84001 meteorite	orthopyroxenite	which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field	low	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	large if the fall was witnessed	no chondrules	cooling in deep underground chambers	1606 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		very slow		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	7.1 % of meteorite falls	orthopyroxene	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite