Name
Frontier Mountain 90224
Abbreviation
FRO 90224
Observed fall
No
Place of Recovery
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country
ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition
6
Latitude
72° 57' 20'' S
Longitude
160° 26' 18'' E
Findsite remarks
blue ice, firn-ice edge, W of camp
Field description
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy)
10/1/1991
Finder
FRANCHI I.A.
Original Mass (g)
14.91
Mass at MNA (g)
3.24
Thin section
available
Status
OFFICIAL
Coarse Type
STONY
Type
CHONDRITE
Class/Clan
ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group
H 6
Shock stage
S1
Weathering grade
A/B
Fa (Ol)
19.3
Fs (low Ca Px)
18.3
Classified by
P.A. Bland (OU) and L. Folco (UniSi)
Comments
Other data
References
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 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 Grady M.M. (2000) Catalogue of meteorites. Fifth Edition. The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., 690 pp.https://doi.org/10.5519/tqfuwle7 Rubin A.E. (2004) Postshock annealing and postannealing shock in equilibrated ordinary chondrites: Implications for the thermal and shock histories of chondritic asteroids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68(3), 673-689.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00452-6 Wlotzka F. (1993) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 75, 1993 December. Meteorit. 28(5), 692-703.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1993.tb00641.x
PROJECT
Title
EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme
Acr
EUROMET 1
Code
PI
Marcello Mellini