Name
Frontier Mountain 93012
Abbreviation
FRO 93012
Observed fall
No
Place of Recovery
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country
ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition
9
Latitude
72° 57' 11'' S
Longitude
160° 31' 47'' E
Findsite remarks
blue ice, firn-ice edge, E of camp
Field description
90% crusted stone, flat tetrahedron shape, magnetic, 3 cm across
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy)
6/1/1994
Finder
FOLCO L.
Original Mass (g)
19.95
Mass at MNA (g)
17.78
Thin section
available
Status
OFFICIAL
Coarse Type
STONY
Type
CHONDRITE
Class/Clan
ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group
L 5
Shock stage
S4
Weathering grade
A
Fa (Ol)
25.5
Fs (low Ca Px)
20.7
Classified by
R. Carampin, A.M. Fioretti and G. Molin (UPad)
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 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 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
PROJECT
Title
EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme
Acr
EUROMET
Code
PI
Marcello Mellini