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stony meteorite comparison table

Subject	has sediment mechanism	has metal abundance	has part mean Ni content of sulfide	has age	has refractory inclusion abundance	has distinguishing feature	has part feldspar	has part metal maximum bulk	has chondrule glass type	has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene	has chondrule abundance	has relative abundance	has part chondrule	has total mass of find	has structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has peak temperature	has parent body	has part matrix	has matrix abundance	has petrologic type range	has part carbon	is a kind of	has part water	has number of find	has definition	has chondrule mean diameter
achondrite						no chondrules						7.1 % of meteorite falls		1606 kg								stony meteorite		70	a meteorite produced by secondary processes on large asteroids that have differentiated
chondrite	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	in volume %	in weight %	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	in volume %		usually plagioclase tectosilicate	in weight %		definition goes here	in volume %	85.7 % of meteorite falls	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals	20461 kg	definition goes here	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	fine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituents	in volume %	which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism	in weight %	undifferentiated meteorite	in weight %	1030	primitive undifferentiated stony meteorite formed as conglomerates containing chondrules, lack of secondary heating	millimeters

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