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ungrouped enstatite chondrite comparison table

Subject	has sediment mechanism	has oxidized iron content	has weather resistance	has metal abundance	has part mean Ni content of sulfide	has age	fragment	has refractory inclusion abundance	survive fall if	is an instance of	has part feldspar	vaporize completely if	has part metal maximum bulk	has fragmentation probability	be associated with	has fall location	has fall date	has impact angle	has name	has chondrule glass type	has genesi	has identification date	has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene	has chondrule abundance	has relative abundance	shatter	has part chondrule	has texture	has oxidation state	has total mass of find	has structural state of low Ca pyroxene	has peak temperature	has impact velocity	has parent body	has part matrix	has matrix abundance	has petrologic type range	has fall coordinate	has part carbon	has composition	has original mass	has monetary value	has part mineral	has find date	has part water	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	produce	has synonym	has chondrule mean diameter	have crater image	has fall map
LEW 97223	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	zero	which depends on its composition	in volume %	in weight %	oldest and most primitive rock in solar system	during meteor phase	in volume %	it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere	Antarctic meteorite	usually plagioclase tectosilicate	size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters	in weight %	during meteor phase which depends on composition	crater	Lewis Cliffs, Antarctica	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods		LEW 97223				definition goes here	in volume %		during impact phase	small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted minerals		highly reduced with very little FeO	485755 kg	definition goes here	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere	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 degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude	in weight %	often minerals not found on Earth	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		1997	0 % by weight (approximately)	1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity	power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)	E chondrite	millimeters		which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity

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