How To Use Achondrite In A Sentence
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Discovered at Reckling Peak, Antarctica, this type of meteorite is known as an achondrite.
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The shop offers a wide range of Lunar and Martian meteorites along with many rare achondrites and chondrites.
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Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06128, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006 / 2007 field-season.
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In her journal that day, she noted that, “we found an unusual achondrite.”
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The Specimens below are polished to a high luster on one side to allow viewing of the beautiful crystalline structure characteristic of this rare primitive achondrite!
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It has been identified in carbonaceous achondrite and iron meteorites.
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However, three types of achondrites stand out from the others.
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Sources of other specific meteorites remain unproven, although another set of eight achondrites are suspected to have come from Mars.
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It has been identified in carbonaceous achondrite and iron meteorites.
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This very unusual achondrite has big lumps of iron in it.
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Primitive achondrites then experienced varying degrees of melting, thermal processing, and recrystallization.
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A related group of achondrites, called mesosiderites, are brecciated and metamorphosed.
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A third kind of achondrite would be a rock (like a chondrite) that was simply melted and cooled.
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Stones are divided into two main subcategories: chondrites and achondrites.
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From the crusts of differentiated asteroids and planets come the meteorites we call achondrites.
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The stone made its debut in the second issue of the 1985 Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, classified as a diogenite, a subgroup of the achondrites, stony meteorites that are akin to terrestrial rocks formed from magma such as basalts.
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A single blackened 361 gram achondrite was found in Dar al Gani, Libya at Lat. 26 deg. 55.17’ N and Long. 16 deg. 40.44’ E.
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They are sometimes referred to as enstatite achondrites and might somehow be related to the enstatite chondrites.
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It is an achondrite - a basalt - with a composition that suggest an asteroid from the inner asteroid belt.
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Based on their texture, stone meteorites are divided into two types, the chondrites and the achondrites.
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Together, the howardites, the eucrites, and the diogenites form the most abundant class of achondrites in our collections.
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There are a number of other achondrites that do not fit into any of the preceding groups or subgroups.
