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type 1 chondrite comparison table

Subject	has sediment mechanism	has weather resistance	has metal abundance	has part mean Ni content of sulfide	fragment	has age	has refractory inclusion abundance	survive fall if	has distinguishing feature	vaporize completely if	has part feldspar	has fragmentation probability	has part metal maximum bulk	be associated with	has fall location	has fall date	has impact angle	has metamorphism mechanism	has degree of secondary process	has name	has genesi	has chondrule glass type	has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene	has chondrule abundance	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has part chondrule	has abundance	has prototype	has degree of aqueous alteration	has total mass of find	has structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has impact velocity	has peak temperature	has part matrix	has volatile content	has parent body	has fall coordinate	has matrix abundance	has petrologic type range	has part carbon	has petrologic type	has composition	has monetary value	has original mass	is a kind of	has part mineral	has part water	has origin	has tenacity	has number of find	has ablative mass loss	produce	has chondrule mean diameter	have crater image	has fall map
CI chondrite	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	low	0 % by volume	in weight %	during meteor phase	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	less than 1 % by volume	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	elemental carbon	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	usually plagioclase tectosilicate	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	in weight %	crater	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		aqueous altermation	providing insight into geological evolution of parent asteroid	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred			definition goes here	less than 1 % by volume	8 % of meteorite falls	during impact phase		no chondrules	rare relative to other chondrite types	Ivuna meteorite	strong	2577 kg	definition goes here	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	all fine-grained, opaque	high	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	greater than 99 % by volume	which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism	3 to 5 % by weight	1	often minerals not found on Earth	large if the fall was witnessed	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site	type 1 chondrite		18 to 22 % by weight	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	friable	36	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	no chondrules		which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity

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