Abundances of the Various Meteorite Classes
Channel: Dominik Hezel
Date: 2023-04-12

It is interesting to study how many meteorites of a certain type ae present in our collections. For example, most meteorites are undifferentiated (93%). Of these, most are HEDs, only few are pallasites or mesosiderites. Most chondrites are ordinary chondrites (95%) – explaining their name. Only 4% are carbonaceous chondrites. Of these, most are CM, CO, CV and CK, of which CM-CO and CV-CK are combined into clans. Only about 0.4% of the carbonaceous chondrites belong to the utterly important CI chondrites, which have approximately the same composition as the Sun. It would be possible and interesting to study similar insights, e.g., it would be interesting to see how falls and finds are different.