Meteorite Glossary - Letter B

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Basalt:

A common volcanic rock, lava is general basaltic. Some of the planetary and lunar meteorites are basalts.

Bolide:

A very bright meteor that may be associated with detonations and a smoky train. Often producing meteorites. Fireball

Brachinite:

One of the primitive achondrite type meteorites. It is composed of almost only olivine.

Breccia:

In contrast to conglomerates which are rocks made of varying sizes of round cobbles. Breccias are rocks made of angular chunks of rocks. Breccias made of one type of rock pieces are called monomict breccias. Rocks made of chunks from more than one type of parent rock are called polymict breccias.

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