The significance of meteorite density and porosity

By G. Consolmagno, D. Britt, R. Macke. 2008

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The Effect of Jupiter's Formation on the Distribution of Refractory Elements and Inclusions in Meteorites (2017, background): “We suspect that wih better data on chondrule densities the fit would improve; for example, EH chondrites have among the highest grain densities, ∼ 3.7 g cm−3, (Consolmagno et al. 2008), and if their chondrules have the same density, we would predict a chondrule size of 0.37 mm.”
Density of asteroids (2012, background): “Asteroids belonging to the S-complex (S, Sa, Sq, Sr, and Sv) and to the Q class have been successfully linked to the most common meteorites, the ordinary chondrites (OCs).”
Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization (2013, background): “2) revealed a degree of compaction consistent with the lack of intragranular porosity typical of LL chondrites (16).”
Shape model and surface properties of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu from radar and lightcurve observations (2013, result): “More recent studies of the densities of L-chondrites (Consolmagno et al., 2008) give slightly lower densities (by 5–10%), and the results should scale with that value. ig.”