| Name |
Frontier Mountain 90126 |
| Abbreviation |
FRO 90126 |
| Observed fall |
No |
| Place of Recovery |
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica |
| Country |
ANTARCTICA |
| Italian Antarctic Expedition |
6 |
| Latitude |
72° 59' 32'' S |
| Longitude |
160° 24' 31'' E |
| Findsite remarks |
Meteorite Valley Moraine; approximate geographic coordinates (not GPS reading) |
| Field description |
|
| Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) |
10/1/1991 |
| Finder |
DELISLE G. |
| Original Mass (g) |
1.81 |
| Mass at MNA (g) |
1.35 |
| Thin section |
available |
| Status |
OFFICIAL |
| Coarse Type |
STONY |
| Type |
CHONDRITE |
| Class/Clan |
ORDINARY CHONDRITE |
| Group |
H 3 |
| Shock stage |
S3 |
| Weathering grade |
B |
| Fa (Ol) |
20 (19.1) |
| Fs (low Ca Px) |
14 (17.2) |
| Classified by |
P.A. Bland (OU) and L. Folco (UniSi) |
| Comments |
Petrographic type (3.8) based on Ol Fa statistics (P.A. Bland and L. Folco) |
| 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 - 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 - Wlotzka F. (1993) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 74, 1993 March. Meteorit. 28(1), 146-153.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1993.tb00262.x
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| PROJECT |
| Title |
EUROMET: an European meteorite collection programme |
| Acr |
EUROMET 1 |
| Code |
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| PI |
Marcello Mellini |