Matter
- Name
- Chelyabinsk meteorite, impact melt lithology, powder 45 μm
- Family
- extraterrestrial
- Comments
- Ordinary chondrite, LL5, shock C-S4, weathering W0. Whole rock melt with residual fragments and newly crystalized olivine needle crystals.
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- extraterrestrial
- Provider
- purchased
- Object name
- Chelyabinsk
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- Chelyabinsk , Chelyabinskaya oblast , Russia
Coordinates
- System
- WGS84
- Position type
- point
- Geolocation
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Point Latitude Longitude Altitude #1 54.8167° 61.1167°
- Preparation
- sieved fraction
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- bulk
- Location in object
- impact melt lithology, interior
- Texture
- loose fine grained
- Type of porosity
- open pores
- Grain sizes
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Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Equivalent diameter Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 45.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 irregular - Size method
- sieving
- Comments
- Chelyabinsk meteorite impact melt lithology bulk density 3.32 g/cm3, grain density 3.51, porosity 0.06, log of magnetic susceptibility (in 10-9 m3/kg) 4.49