CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 90233
Abbreviation FRO 90233
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 6
Latitude 72° 57' 22'' S
Longitude 160° 26' 18'' E
Findsite remarks blue ice, firn-ice edge, W of camp
Field description
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) 10/1/1991
Finder FRANCHI I.A.
Original Mass (g) 31.89
Mass at MNA (g) 21.04
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type PRIMITIVE ACHONDRITE
Class/Clan
Group UREILITE
Shock stage S4
Weathering grade B
Fa (Ol) 9.5-21.5
Fs (low Ca Px) 19.3
Classified by A.M. Fioretti and R. Carampin (UniPd)
Comments Monomict breccia
Other data Coarse grained; 76% Ol, 16% low-Ca Px, 8% interstitial graphite; Px mosaicized
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. 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. Russell S.S., Zolensky M.E., Righter K., Folco L., Jones R., Connolly H.C., Grady M.M. and Grossman J.N. (2005) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No.89, 2005 September. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 40(S9), A201-A263.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00425.x
  6. 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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