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type I iron meteorite comparison table
Subject has antimony content has iridium content is an instance of has structural class has distinguishing feature has arsenic content has fall location has fall date has formation cooling rate has name has crystal size has gold content has palladium content has molydbenum content has fall coordinate has tungsten content has copper content is a kind of has find date has nickel content has chromium content has image have composition has cobalt content has gallium content has germanium content has phosphor content
Odessa  type I iron meteoriteOgcrystalline iron-nickel alloy Odessa, Texas, U.S.ALate Pleistocene about 50,000 years ago Odessa1.7 ±0.25 mm (coarse)   Latitude 31 degrees 45 minutes 21 seconds North, Longitude 102 degrees 28 minutes 43 seconds West   1920always greater than 4 % 
7.35% Ni, 0.48% Co, 0.25% P, 0.5% S, 0.2% C, 75 ppm Ga, 285 ppm Ge, 2 ppm Ir    
type IC iron meteorite98 nanogram/gram0.38 microgram/gram variable 11 microgram/gramstrewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocityrecorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methodshighly variablebased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred 1.14 microgram/gram3.5 microgram/gram7.7 microgram/gramin degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude1.3 microgram/gram160 microgram/gramtype I iron meteorite 7.1 % by weight70 microgram/gram  4.6 milligram/gram51.7 microgram/gram230 microgram/gram4.3 milligram/gram

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