CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 93002
Abbreviation FRO 93002
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 9
Latitude 72° 58' 0'' S
Longitude 160° 25' 26'' E
Findsite remarks blue ice, scatterfield, 150 m ENE of FRO 93054
Field description large fragment, rounded and crusted one side, other surfaces are dark brown due to weathering, weakly magnetic, possibly paired with FRO 93054
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) 30/12/1993
Finder BOI L.
Original Mass (g) 665.2
Mass at MNA (g) 627.57
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type CHONDRITE
Class/Clan ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group H 6
Shock stage S3
Weathering grade B
Fa (Ol) 19.2
Fs (low Ca Px) 17.2
Classified by R. Carampin, A.M. Fioretti and G. Molin (UPad)
Comments
Other data
References
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Grady M.M. (2000) Catalogue of meteorites. Fifth Edition. The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., 690 pp.
    https://doi.org/10.5519/tqfuwle7
  4. Grossman J.N. (2000) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 84, 2000 September. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (S5), A199-A225.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01797.x
  5. Rochette P., Sagnotti L., Consolomagno G., Folco L., Maras A., Panzarino F., Pesonen L., Serra R. and Terho M. (2001) A magnetic susceptibility database for stony meteorites. Quaderni di Geofisica 18, 1-6.
    https://editoria.ingv.it/archivio_pdf/qdg/18/pdf/qdg_18.pdf
  6. Welten K.C., Nishiizumi K., Caffee M.W., Hillegonds D.J., Johnson J.A., Jull A.J.T., Wieler R. and Folco L. (2006) Terrestrial ages, pairing, and concentration mechanism of Antarctic chondrites from Frontier Mountain, northern Victoria Land. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 41(7), 1081-1094.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00506.x
PROJECT
Title EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme
Acr EUROMET
Code
PI Marcello Mellini

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