User:Bennoro

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This is a better place to experiment with formatting edits, references, etc.

where are your pics of the Allende strewnfield? (probably don't have any)^[1]

in March should be able to remove nasty banners at top

if you type "Allende" into search box and click "Go" it opens a disambiguation page with Allende meteorite at the bottom.

consider changing the link directly to "Allende Meteorite" with capital M consider moving Allende meteorite from the bottom to like second or third or 4th... consider adding "most studied meteorite" to end of one line description

Something should be done about the "Allende meteorite" page. If there's a way to change the many links to "Allende Meteorite" then OK, but probably there's no way to do this. Actually, everything is OK the way it is, but there's a redirect note at the top if someone goes through "Allende meteorite." May take some looking to figure out how to change this. Also possible is "Move," at the top of the article. This seems to allow a wholesale movement of the article and the edit history to a different title... The more I think about this the more I think I should just leave well enough alone...

ref 8 add "(in 1971)"
reformate the strewnfield graphic - it runs into the next section: add the whitespace that somebody's software removed (below strewnfield graphic) and/or move image line to above "Strewnfield" header - another way would be to separate the last sentence completely with a br
Studying the Meteorite: consider "Allende has been called" instead of "Allende is often called"
link to California Institute of Technology
link to Case Western Reserve University
link "lunar basalts" to "Lunar mare"
link "formation of the solar system" to "Formation and evolution of the Solar System"
link "solar system" (near end)
in Composition, move "(see meteorite classification)" to after "places it in the CV group"
then consider a br after "petrologic" to get rid of orphaned "3" link "supernova"
link "red giant"
there was one more weasel word, but maybe this is acceptable...
or maybe change it to "is estimated to have been approximately the size of an automobile"
fix comma in graphic caption - should be before superscript
add a category - maybe this (plus removal of banners at top) will remove all the dumb "categories" at the bottom
     see bottom of my /Sandbox for how to add categories
fits well in Category:Meteorites but I can't find what that's under...

[edit] Formatting the Allende Graphic

The meteorite was formed from nebular dust and gas during the early formation of the solar system. It is a “stone” meteorite, as opposed to an “iron,” or “stony iron,” the other two general classes of meteorite.  (For more on meteorite types and classification consult the following: [1] [2] [3].)  Most Allende stones are covered, in part or in whole, by a black, shiny crust created as the stone descended at great speed through the atmosphere as it was falling towards the earth from space. This causes the exterior of the stone to become very hot, melting it, and forming a glassy “fusion crust.”

When an Allende stone is sawed into two pieces and the surface is polished, the structure in the interior can be examined. This reveals a dark matrix embedded throughout with mm-sized, lighter-colored chondrules, tiny stony spherules found only in meteorites and not in earth rock. (Thus it is a chondritic meteorite.) Also seen are white inclusions, up to several cm in size, ranging in shape from spherical to highly irregular or "amoeboidal." These are known as calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions or "CAIs", so named because they are dominantly composed of Ca- and Al-rich silicate and oxide minerals. Like many chondrites, Allende is a breccia, and contains many dark-colored clasts or "dark inclusions" which have a chondritic structure that is distinct from the rest of the meteorite. Unlike many other chondrites, Allende is almost completely lacking in Fe-Ni metal.

500 looks best, and formatting with the pic next to the polished face description is a little better than at the top...

[edit] References

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