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| Basic information | Name: Frontier Mountain 84001 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: FRO 84001 Observed fall: No Year found: 1984 Country: Antarctica [Collected by EUROMET consortium] Mass:  942 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 12281 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 67:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Frontier Mountain 8401 Victoria Land, Antarctica Found between December 1984 and January 1985 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (L6). A single mass weighing 942 g was found, olivine Fa25.3. This is one of 34 meteorite specimens, all ordinary chondrites, that were found by a German field party during the 1984-85 field season in Antarctica, G. Delisle et al. (1985) Meteoritics 20, 635. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 67, Meteoritics 24, 57-60 (1989)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43840 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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