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Frontier Mountain 90077
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 90077
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 90077
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1990
Country: Antarctica [Collected jointly by EUROMET and PNRA]
Mass:help 3.2 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 74  (1993)  L3
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L3.8
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 840 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB74
  Table 4
  Line 8:
Mass (g):3.17
Class:L3
Shock stage:S5
Fayalite (mol%):24.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):24.6
Classifier:A. M. Fioretti (C.S.P.O.A.O. CNR, Padova), G.-M. Molin, G. Salviulo (University of Padova) and G. P. Sighinolfi (University of Modena). Specimens and thin sections are held at The Open University, Planetary Science Unit, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
Comments:Oriented chond.
Institutions
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CNR: Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Sez. Di Padova, Corso Garibaldi 37, 35100 Padova, Italy (institutional address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 74, Meteoritics 28, 146-153 (1993)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (72° 59' 27"S, 160° 22' 33"E)
     Recommended::   (72° 57' 20"S, 160° 27' 30"E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 4.8 km apart

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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