Name
Frontier Mountain 93028
Abbreviation
FRO 93028
Observed fall
No
Place of Recovery
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country
ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition
9
Latitude
72° 57' 4'' S
Longitude
160° 27' 22'' E
Findsite remarks
Meteorite Valley Moraine; 20 m NW of 93146
Field description
rounded stone, 70% crusted, broken corners, magnetic, 2 cm across
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy)
30/1/1994
Finder
FRANCHI I.A.
Original Mass (g)
10.19
Mass at MNA (g)
5.72
Thin section
not available
Status
OFFICIAL
Coarse Type
STONY
Type
CHONDRITE
Class/Clan
ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group
H 4
Shock stage
Weathering grade
B
Fa (Ol)
17.4
Fs (low Ca Px)
11.0
Classified by
S. Russell (NHM-London)
Comments
Other data
References
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