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shock melted meteorite comparison table

Subject	has part mean Ni content of sulfide	has solidification timescale	has part carbon	has olivine shock metamorphism	has part matrix	is independent of	has shock pressure	has matrix abundance	has letter designation	has pyroxene shock metamorphism	has sediment mechanism	has origin	has likely origin	has distinguishing feature	has degree of secondary process	has part feldspar	has metal abundance	has refractory inclusion abundance	has solidification mechanism	has chondrule mean diameter	has petrology	has chondrule glass type	has age	has original texture	has number of find	has part water	has orthopyroxene shock metamorphism	has plagioclase shock metamorphism	has characteristic mineral	has peak temperature	has shock diagnostic mineral	be shock	has part metal maximum bulk	has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene	has gain size	has structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has matrix composition	has minerology	has total mass of find	has chondrule abundance	has parent body	has part chondrule	has texture	has olivine grain characteristic	has petrologic type range
mosaicized ureilite		very slow		completely shattered or mosaicized			100 GPa or greater		AURE	mottled by melt glass		asteroid	partial melting residue	no chondrules					cooling in deep underground chambers		coarse-grained granular			visible via dark matrix outlining relict grain boundaries of large, elongate grains, and a common preferred orientation of grains within relict domains -has source: Berkley JL, Taylor GJ, Keil K. Harlow GE, Prinz M 1980, Geochim Cosmochim Acta 44, 1579 -has URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1980GeCoA..44.1579B	6 (out of date)				olivine-pigeonite about 90% by volume		diamonds and/or lonsdaleite				much less than 1 mm		carbon, metal, sulfides small silicate grains along grain boundaries less than 10% by volume	olivine, pyroxene (some combination of pigeonite, orthopyroxene, augite)	9 kg (out of date)				mosaicized	reduced rims contacting carbonaceous matrix material 0.1 mm FeO-free olivine and/or enstatite rims riddled with tiny inclusions of low-Ni metal
shock melted chondrite	in weight %		in weight %	impact melt and melt breccias	fine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents	the nature and degree of thermal metamorphism or aqueous alteration	greater than 90 GPa	in volume %			agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal			providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid	usually plagioclase tectosilicate	in volume %	in volume %		millimeters			oldest and most primitive rock in solar system		1691	in weight %	impact melt and melt breccias	impact melt and melt breccias		less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	orthopyroxene for enstatite chondrite	before, during or after other types of metamorphism	in weight %	definition goes here		definition goes here			485755 kg	in volume %	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals			which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism

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