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Subject has sediment mechanism has weather resistance has crystalinity fragment survive fall if vaporize completely if has fragmentation probability be associated with has fall location has fall date has impact angle has metamorphism mechanism has solidification mechanism has name has part has relative abundance shatter has texture has total mass of find has impact velocity has fall coordinate has composition has original mass has monetary value has property has grain size has number of find has origin has ablative mass loss produce has solidification timescale has definition have crater image has fall map

amygdaloidal rock rock containing mineral-filled elliptically shaped vesicles

aphanitic rock too small to see with unaided eye or low power lens a rock with grains too small to see or identify with either the unaided eye or a low power lens

glass

gravitationally separated rock formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field

holocrystaline rock 100 % entirely crystaline

holohyaline rock 0 % glass

hypocrystaline rock mixture of crystals and glass crystals and glass

igneous rock silicates (with very few exceptions) rock formed from the solidification of magma

metamorphic rock a rock which has undergone chemical and or structural transformation from its original solid form

meteorite which depends on its composition during meteor phase it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters during meteor phase which depends on composition crater strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred fragments during impact phase 485755 kg when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude 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 1691 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) what remains after a meteoroid strikes the surface of a planet, satellite or asteroid which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity

phaneretic rock discernable without a microscope a rock whose grains can be discerned without the aid of a microscope

sedimentary rock

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Subject	has sediment mechanism	has weather resistance	has crystalinity	fragment	survive fall if	vaporize completely if	has fragmentation probability	be associated with	has fall location	has fall date	has impact angle	has metamorphism mechanism	has solidification mechanism	has name	has part	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has total mass of find	has impact velocity	has fall coordinate	has composition	has original mass	has monetary value	has property	has grain size	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	produce	has solidification timescale	has definition	have crater image	has fall map
amygdaloidal rock																																rock containing mineral-filled elliptically shaped vesicles
aphanitic rock																										too small to see with unaided eye or low power lens						a rock with grains too small to see or identify with either the unaided eye or a low power lens
glass
gravitationally separated rock																									formed by separation of molten rock in a gravity field
holocrystaline rock			100 %															entirely crystaline
holohyaline rock			0 %															glass
hypocrystaline rock			mixture of crystals and glass															crystals and glass
igneous rock																						silicates (with very few exceptions)										rock formed from the solidification of magma
metamorphic rock																																a rock which has undergone chemical and or structural transformation from its original solid form
meteorite		which depends on its composition		during meteor phase	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	during meteor phase which depends on composition	crater	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods				based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	fragments		during impact phase		485755 kg	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	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			1691	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)		what remains after a meteoroid strikes the surface of a planet, satellite or asteroid		which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity
phaneretic rock																										discernable without a microscope						a rock whose grains can be discerned without the aid of a microscope
sedimentary rock