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- adjective of or pertaining to achondrite.
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- adjective geology Of or pertaining to
achondrite , a type of stonymeteorite
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- adjective not having a granular structure
- adjective of or related to an achondrite
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Examples
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The tiny rock, known as MM40, is the first achondritic basaltic micrometeorite ever found on
Universe Today 2009
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In the case of one or several surface impact (s) of achondritic projectile (s), which could explain the absence of PGEs in the studied BA/YD sections, it becomes difficult to explain the formation of nanodiamonds without a well-dated surface expression of one or several craters.
Anthropology.net 2009
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Alternatively, to avoid PGE enrichment, it is possible to invoke the impact of one or several differentiated, PGEs-poor, possibly still unknown type of achondritic meteorites that vaporized in Earth's atmosphere at the BA/YD transition is one possibility.
Anthropology.net 2009
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In the scenario of a 1 - to 2-km diameter achondritic, PGEs-poor projectile exploding into the atmosphere or hitting only the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a crater would possibly not have been formed.
Anthropology.net 2009
vanishedone commented on the word achondritic
B.B.C. News: 'Achondritic meteorites were formed when the Solar System's planets were coming into being. The substances in such meteorites and the processes they have undergone can give clues about how the larger bodies were formed.
'By contrast, chondritic meteorites were formed during the the Solar System's early days before material had accreted into planets. They have not been altered by the melting and re-crystalisation that has utterly transformed the nature of, say, Earth rocks.'
April 7, 2009