The object broke into at least 4 pieces. One piece detonated at an altitude of about 46 km at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.9 degrees West Longitude. The remaining 3 pieces detonated in close proximity to one another at altitudes between 28 km, at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.1 degrees West Longitude and 25 km at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.0 degrees West Longitude. The object was detected at 39.4 degrees North Latitude, 106.4 degrees West Longitude. If a quote checker had called me, I would have set mine straight, less cavalier and more appropriate.
Chondrules are millimeter-sized rounded igneous rocks within chondritic meteorites.
Astrophysical models of chondrule formation have been unable to explain the petrologically diverse nature of chondrites. However, a nebular shock wave model for chondrule formation agrees with many of the observed petrologic and geochemical properties of chondrules and shows how particles within the nebula are sorted by size and how rims around chondrules are formed. It also explains the volatile-rich nature of chondrule rims and the chondrite matrix. The orbital and absolute magnitude distributions of main belt asteroids. We have found that the set of known asteroids is complete to about absolute magnitudes 12.75, 12.25, and 11.25 in the inner, middle, and outer regions of the belt, respectively.