Name	Frontier Mountain 01015
Abbreviation	FRO 01015
Observed fall	No
Place of Recovery	Frontier Mountain, Antarctica
Country	ANTARCTICA
Italian Antarctic Expedition	17
Latitude	72° 59' 20'' S
Longitude	160° 24' 21'' E
Findsite remarks	Meteorite Valley Moraine
Field description	flat stony fragment, 1 cm
Find date (dd/mm/yyyy)	12/12/2001
Finder	FOLCO L.
Original Mass (g)	1.2
Mass at MNA (g)	0.96
Thin section	available
Status	OFFICIAL
Coarse Type	STONY
Type	CHONDRITE
Class/Clan	ORDINARY CHONDRITE
Group	H 5
Shock stage	S4
Weathering grade	W1
Fa (Ol)	19
Fs (low Ca Px)	17
Classified by	R. Carampin and A.M. Fioretti (Upad)
Comments
Other data
References	Ferraris C., Folco L., Mellini M. and Zeoli A. (2003) Meteorites: 174 new finds from Frontier Mountain and other blue ice fields in the Rennick Glacier and David Glacier regions (Antarctica, 2001-2002). Terra Antartica Reports 8, 185-188. 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 Russell S.S., Zipfel J., Folco L., Jones R., Grady M.M., McCoy T. and Grossman J.N. (2003) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 87, 2003 July. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 38(S7), A189-A248. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00328.x
PROJECT
Title	Concentrazioni di meteoriti: individuazione, raccolta e studio
Acr
Code
PI	Marcello Mellini