CAMPIONE METEORITE - METEORITE SAMPLE

Name Frontier Mountain 97063
Abbreviation FRO 97063
Observed fall No
Place of Recovery Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition 13
Latitude 72° 59' 29'' S
Longitude 160° 24' 19'' E
Findsite remarks Meteorite Valley Moraine
Field description flat fragment, 1.9x1.5 cm in size, fusion crust, magnetic
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy) 28/12/1997
Finder VORI U.
Original Mass (g) 3.6
Mass at MNA (g) 0
Thin section available
Status OFFICIAL
Coarse Type STONY
Type CHONDRITE
Class/Clan ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group H 4/5
Shock stage S2
Weathering grade W1
Fa (Ol) 19
Fs (low Ca Px) 18
Classified by M. Macrì, A. Maras and M. Serracino (UniRoma)
Comments
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. 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
  5. Maras A. and Macrì M. (2003) Thermal and shock metamorphic features and terrestrial weathering in opaque minerals of some Antarctic ordinary chondrites recovered by Italian expeditions to Frontier Mountain. Terra Antartica Reports 8, 197-202.
  6. 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 Concentrazioni di meteoriti: individuazione, raccolta e studio
Acr
Code
PI Marcello Mellini

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