Key facts
- Category
- Meteoritic material
- Object class
- Ordinary chondrite
- Scale fact
- 11 cmspecimen extent
- Composition
- Silicates and iron-nickel metal
Ordinary Chondrite
11 cmspecimen extent
Details
An ordinary chondrite is a stony, chondrule-rich meteorite from an asteroid. Ordinary chondrites account for most observed meteorite falls, although their rocks record varying degrees of heating, shock, and mixing inside their parent bodies.
The word “ordinary” describes abundance, not a simple history. These meteorites combine chondrules, fine-grained matrix, and metal, and many are breccias assembled from material with different thermal or impact histories. Most of them probably come from only a few asteroid source regions.
Links
- Wikipedia
- Ordinary Chondrite on Wikipedia
Size neighbors
Objects near Ordinary Chondrite on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, Ordinary Chondrite falls between Carbonaceous Chondrite and Nakhla Meteoroid. The band uses nearby Meteoritic material records.
Shared physical scale
13.8m
Sources
References for Ordinary Chondrite
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Ordinary Chondrite — Wikipedia
- Visual reference: Wikimedia Commons (Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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