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kleinbl00 · 463 days ago · link · · parent · post: Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas - NASA
lol 60cm in diameter by 454kg puts it at a density of 4g/cm^3, or about half that of iron's. You knew that, of course but some of us need to struggle through our decoder rings...
Yup, and that's a pretty standard density for meteorites. Depending on error bars on that corgi, it could be a chunkier/less porous type of chondrite (very common), but that's about all I'd be willing to put forward. Enstatites are less dense (3.5-ish), iron-bearing composites are denser (4.5-ish), and that's about the extent of my geological knowledge.