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Frontier Mountain 97003 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Frontier Mountain 97003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: FRO 97003 Observed fall: No Year found: 1997 Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy] Mass: 0.2 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 470 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as CV3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 84:
Frontier Mountain 97002 and 97003 CV3 Probably paired; contain abundant millimeter-sized chondrules (primarily type IA and IB, Fa2–12 and Fs1–5, respectively) and minor refractory inclusions; black matrix, mainly consisting of FeO-rich olivine grains (Fa39–71) up to several micrometers in size; opaque minerals include submicrometer grains of Ni-rich sulfide (up to 18 wt% Ni), and no metal has been detected; O isotopes for FRO 97002 are δ17O = –2.16‰, δ18O = +2.45‰, Δ17O= –3.44‰. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB84 Table 2 Line 56: |
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Institutions and collections |
UPad: Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy, Italy (institutional address; updated 20 Jun 2022) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44547 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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