Name
Frontier Mountain 90028
Abbreviation
FRO 90028
Observed fall
No
Place of Recovery
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country
ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition
6
Latitude
72° 57' 12'' S
Longitude
160° 30' 34'' 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)
18.75
Mass at MNA (g)
14.2
Thin section
available
Status
OFFICIAL
Coarse Type
STONY
Type
CHONDRITE
Class/Clan
ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group
L 3
Shock stage
S4
Weathering grade
A/B
Fa (Ol)
10 (0.7-39.5)
Fs (low Ca Px)
6 (0.8-16.8)
Classified by
R. Hutchison (NHM-London), S.J.B. Reed (UniCamb) and P.A. Bland (OU)
Comments
L(?)3. Melt veins/pockets; petrographic type (<3.4) based on Ol Fa statistics (P.A. Bland and L. Folco)
Other data
References
Folco L. and Bland P.A. (1994) Meteorites from the 1990/91 EUROMET Expedition to Frontier Mountain, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Terra Antartica 1(1), 138-142.http://192.167.120.37/Editoria/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_01/TA_01_01_138_Folco.pdf 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 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 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