Name
Frontier Mountain 95040
Abbreviation
FRO 95040
Observed fall
No
Place of Recovery
Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country
ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition
11
Latitude
72° 57' 16'' S
Longitude
160° 33' 21'' E
Findsite remarks
blue ice, firn-ice edge, E of camp
Field description
fresh rounded stone, 2 cm across
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy)
11/12/1995
Finder
MENEGHEL M.
Original Mass (g)
8.4
Mass at MNA (g)
4.43
Thin section
not available
Status
OFFICIAL
Coarse Type
STONY
Type
CHONDRITE
Class/Clan
ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group
H 5
Shock stage
S2-3
Weathering grade
W2
Fa (Ol)
18.4
Fs (low Ca Px)
17.1
Classified by
J.C. Bridges, R. Hutchison, M.J. Genge and M.M. Grady (NHM-London)
Comments
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 Grossman J.N. (1997) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 81, 1997 July. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32(S4), A159-A166.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01595.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