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Frontier Mountain 03010
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 03010
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 03010
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 10.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 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)
Data from:
  MB89
  Table 3
  Line 12:
Date:28 Dec 2003
Latitude:72°57'04.7"S
Longitude:160°30'47.0"W
Mass (g):10.1
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S5
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):25.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.3
Magnetic suscept.:4.64
Classifier:M. Macrì, A. Maras and M. Serracino, Roma
Main mass:MNA-SI
Institutions
   and collections		 MNA-SI: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (72° 57' 5"S, 160° 30' 47"E)

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     This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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