CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 90027
Abbreviation FRO 90027
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 6
Latitude 72° 57' 14'' S
Longitude 160° 30' 13'' E
Findsite remarks blue ice, firn-ice edge, E of camp
Field description
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) 10/1/1991
Finder WIELER R.
Original Mass (g) 16.03
Mass at MNA (g) 11.65
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type CHONDRITE
Class/Clan ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group H 3
Shock stage S3
Weathering grade B/C
Fa (Ol) 3.0-27.6
Fs (low Ca Px) 7.3-18.9
Classified by R. Hutchison (NHM-London), S.J.B. Reed (UniCamb) and P.A. Bland (OU)
Comments Petrographic type (3.7) based on Ol Fa statistics (P.A. Bland and L. Folco)
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. 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
  5. Wight M.J., Wright I.P. and Pillinger C.T. (1995) Extensive weathering in type 3 ordinary chondrites from Frontier Mountain (abstract). Lunar. Planet. Sci. Conf. 26, 1501.
    https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995LPI....26.1501W
  6. 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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