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Names Composition Occurrence Akimotoite (Mg,Fe)SiO 3: Alabandite: MnS Allabogdanite (Fe,Ni) 2 P Antitaenite: Brezinaite: Cr 3 S 4: Brianite: Na 2 CaMg(PO 4) 2: Calcium–aluminium-rich inclusion: Carlsbergite: CrN the North Chile meteorite in the Antofagasta Province, Chile; the Nentmannsdorf meteorite of Bahretal, Saxony, Germany
Ablation – the process of a meteorite losing mass during the passage through the atmosphere.; Acapulcoite – a group of primitive achondrites.; Accretion – the process in which matter of the protoplanetary disk coalesces to form planetesimals.
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
The 60-tonne, 2.7 m-long (8.9 ft) Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite.[1]A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
Stony–iron meteorites have always been divided into pallasites (which are now known to comprise several distinct groups) and mesosiderites (a textural term that is also synonymous with the name of a modern group). Below is a representation of how the meteorite groups fit into the more traditional classification hierarchy: [1]
Meteoritics [note 1] is the science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids. [note 2] [2] [3] It is closely connected to cosmochemistry, mineralogy and geochemistry.
List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...