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type IVB iron meteorite comparison table
Subject has weather resistance has antimony content fragment has iridium content survive fall if is an instance of has structural class has distinguishing feature vaporize completely if has arsenic content has carbon content has fragmentation probability be associated with has fall location has fall date has impact angle has metal content has formation cooling rate has solidification mechanism has name parent body radiu has crystal size has sulfur content has gold content has genesi has palladium content has relative abundance has molydbenum content shatter has texture has total mass of find has impact velocity has fall coordinate has copper content has tungsten content has composition has monetary value has original mass has part mineral has find date has nickel content has chromium content has image has origin has number of find has ablative mass loss have composition produce has cobalt content has solidification timescale has gallium content has germanium content has phosphor content have crater image has fall map
Chingahigh1.5 nanogram/gramduring meteor phase22 microgram/gramit fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmospheretype IVB iron meteoriteDcrystalline iron-nickel alloysize is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters1.1 microgram/gram40 microgram/gramlow because it is tougher than stony meteoritecraterTanna Tuva, Tuvinskaya, Russiarecorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods higher than that of average solar system material30 to 260 degrees C per million years Chinga11 to 30 kilometersalso called Widmanstatten bandwidth0.03 % by weight0.15 microgram/gram 12 microgram/gram5.7 % of meteorite falls27 microgram/gramduring impact phase 60487 kgwhen it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphereLatitude 51 degrees 3 minutes 30 seconds North, Longitude 94 degrees 0 degrees 24 seconds East12 microgram/gram3 microgram/gramkamacite, taenitelarge if the fall was witnessedgreater than 80 kg 19137.1 % by weight87.7 microgram/gram
planet or asteroid much larger than 100 km in diameter11low because it has higher tensile strength than stony meteorite16.38% Ni, 0.181 ppm Ga, 0.082 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Irpower outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)7.4 milligram/gram 0.221 microgram/gram0.0526 microgram/gram1 milligram/gram which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity

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