CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 90228
Abbreviation FRO 90228
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 6
Latitude 72° 57' 19'' S
Longitude 160° 26' 26'' 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) 13.26
Mass at MNA (g) 10.16
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type PRIMITIVE ACHONDRITE
Class/Clan
Group UREILITE
Shock stage S4/5
Weathering grade A/B
Fa (Ol)
Fs (low Ca Px)
Classified by
Comments
Other data Ol mean mg# 85.2, low C-content (Smith et al., 2000)
References
  1. Fioretti A.M. and Goodrich C.A. (2001) A contact between an olivine-pigeonite lithology and an olivine-augite-orthopyroxene lithology in ureilite FRO 93008: dashed hopes? Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36(S9), A58.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2001.tb01542.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. Goodrich C.A., Collinet M., Treiman A., Prissel T.C., Patzek M., Ebert S., Jercinovic M.J., Bischoff A., Pack A., Barrat J.-A. and Decker S. (2022) The first main group ureilite with primary plagioclase: A missing link in the differentiation of the ureilite parent body. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 57(8), 1589-1616.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13889
  4. Grady M.M. (2000) Catalogue of meteorites. Fifth Edition. The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., 690 pp.
    https://doi.org/10.5519/tqfuwle7
  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. Smith C.L., Downes H. and Jones A.P. (2008) Metal and sulphide phases in interstitial veins in “dimict” ureilites - Insights into the history and petrogenesis of the ureilite parent body. 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX), March 10-14, League City (Texas). LPI Contribution No. 1391, 1669.
    https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2008/pdf/1669.pdf
  7. Smith C.L., Franchi I.A., Wright I.P., Grady M.M., Verchovsky A.B. and Pillinger C.T. (1999) A preliminary noble gases and light element stable isotopic study of the Frontier Mountain 90228 low-carbon ureilite (abstract). Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34(S4), A110.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01769.x
  8. Smith C.L., Wright I.P., Franchi I.A. and Grady M.M. (2000) A statistical analysis of mineralogical data from Frontier Mountain ureilites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35(S5), A150.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01796.x
PROJECT
Title EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme
Acr EUROMET 1
Code
PI Marcello Mellini

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