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reduced subgroup CV chondrite comparison table

Subject	has weather resistance	has olivine shock metamorphism	is independent of	has shock pressure	has petrologic subtype	has image	has weather	has degree of secondary process	has relative abundance	has fragmentation probability	has metamorphism mechanism	has fall date	has fall description	has number of find	has orthopyroxene shock metamorphism	has plagioclase shock metamorphism	has degree of shock metamorphism	has mass	has shock diagnostic mineral	has name	be shock	has fall location	is an instance of	has shock stage	has composition	has value	has fall coordinate	has ablative mass loss	has total mass of find
Arch	low								8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite		recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		36						based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	reduced subgroup CV chondrite		iron-rich olivine, calcium aluminum inclusions		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
Efremovka meteorite	low								8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite		recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		36						based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	reduced subgroup CV chondrite		iron-rich olivine, calcium aluminum inclusions		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
Leoville	low								8 % of meteorite falls	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite		recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		36						based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	reduced subgroup CV chondrite		iron-rich olivine, calcium aluminum inclusions		in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	2577 kg
Vigarano	which depends on its composition	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	5 to 10 GPa	3.3		negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins	providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid		during meteor phase which depends on composition	shock metamorphism	January 22, 1910 9:30 pm	what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments	1691	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures, some planar fractures	undulatory extinction, irregular fractures	very weakly shocked	16 kg	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	Vigarano	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	Emilia, Italy	S2 shock stage chondrite	S2	often minerals not found on Earth	higher because the fall was witnessed	44° 51' N., 11° 24' E.	directly proportional to initial velocity	485755 kg

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