CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 90003
Abbreviation FRO 90003
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 6
Latitude 72° 57' 18'' S
Longitude 160° 26' 17'' E
Findsite remarks blue ice, firn-ice edge, W of camp
Field description
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) 10/1/1991
Finder WIELER R.
Original Mass (g) 25.84
Mass at MNA (g) 23.611
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type CHONDRITE
Class/Clan ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group H 3.6
Shock stage S2
Weathering grade B
Fa (Ol) 18.4
Fs (low Ca Px) 15.0
Classified by R. Hutchison (NHM-Londra), S.J.B. Reed (UniCamb) and P.A. Bland (OU)
Comments Px range to lower Fs values, often twinned, isotropic glass. Petrographic type (3.9-4) based on Ol Fa statistics, but isotropic glass in chondrules (P.A. Bland and L. Folco). Petrographic type 3.6 in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database (since 2006).
Other data
References
  1. Ferraris C., Folco L. and Mellini M. (2001) Crystallization sequences and cooling histories of pyroxenes in IIAB and IIB chondrules from unequilibrated H-chondrites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36(S9), A57.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2001.tb01542.x
  2. Ferraris C., Folco L. and Mellini M. (2002) Chondrule thermal history from unequilibrated H chondrites: A transmission and analytical electron microscopy study. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37(10), 1299-1321.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb01030.x
  3. Ferraris C., Folco L. and Mellini M. (2003) Sigmoidal exsolution by internal shear stress in pyroxenes from chondritic meteorites. Phys. Chem. Minerals 30(9), 503-510.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-003-0349-8
  4. Folco L. and Rastelli N. (2000) The meteorite collection of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide in Siena. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35(S5), A189-A198.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01795.x
  5. Folco L. and Rastelli N. (2002) The meteorite collection of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide in Siena. December 2002 update. Terra Antartica 9(2), 101-117.
    http://192.167.120.37/Editoria/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_09/TA_09_101_Folco.pdf
  6. Grady M.M. (2000) Catalogue of meteorites. Fifth Edition. The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., 690 pp.
    https://doi.org/10.5519/tqfuwle7
  7. Wlotzka F. (1992) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 72. Meteorit. 27(1), 109-117.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1992.tb01068.x
PROJECT
Title EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme
Acr EUROMET 1
Code
PI Marcello Mellini

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