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Subject has weather resistance has minerology fragment survive fall if has distinguishing feature vaporize completely if has fragmentation probability be associated with has fall location has olivine grain characteristic has fall date has impact angle has likely origin has solidification mechanism has name has genesi has letter designation has relative abundance shatter has texture has total mass of find has impact velocity has matrix composition has fall coordinate has characteristic mineral has composition has original mass has monetary value is a kind of has part mineral has number of find has origin has ablative mass loss produce has solidification timescale have crater image has fall map has petrology

ureilite low olivine, pyroxene (some combination of pigeonite, orthopyroxene, augite) during meteor phase it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere no chondrules size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters high because it is more friable than iron meteorite crater strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity reduced rims contacting carbonaceous matrix material 0.1 mm FeO-free olivine and/or enstatite rims riddled with tiny inclusions of low-Ni metal recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods partial melting residue cooling in deep underground chambers based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred AURE 7.1 % of meteorite falls during impact phase 9 kg (out of date) when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere carbon, metal, sulfides small silicate grains along grain boundaries less than 10% by volume in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude olivine-pigeonite about 90% by volume silicates (with very few exceptions) which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site large if the fall was witnessed ultramafic rock 6 (out of date) asteroid high because it is more friable than iron meteorite power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) very slow which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity coarse-grained granular

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Subject	has weather resistance	has minerology	fragment	survive fall if	has distinguishing feature	vaporize completely if	has fragmentation probability	be associated with	has fall location	has olivine grain characteristic	has fall date	has impact angle	has likely origin	has solidification mechanism	has name	has genesi	has letter designation	has relative abundance	shatter	has texture	has total mass of find	has impact velocity	has matrix composition	has fall coordinate	has characteristic mineral	has composition	has original mass	has monetary value	is a kind of	has part mineral	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	produce	has solidification timescale	have crater image	has fall map	has petrology
ureilite	low	olivine, pyroxene (some combination of pigeonite, orthopyroxene, augite)	during meteor phase	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	no chondrules	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	crater	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	reduced rims contacting carbonaceous matrix material 0.1 mm FeO-free olivine and/or enstatite rims riddled with tiny inclusions of low-Ni metal	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		partial melting residue	cooling in deep underground chambers	based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		AURE	7.1 % of meteorite falls	during impact phase		9 kg (out of date)	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	carbon, metal, sulfides small silicate grains along grain boundaries less than 10% by volume	in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	olivine-pigeonite about 90% by volume	silicates (with very few exceptions)	which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site	large if the fall was witnessed	ultramafic rock		6 (out of date)	asteroid	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	very slow		which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	coarse-grained granular