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Frontier Mountain 03013
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 03013
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 03013
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 1.41 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  H~5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H5
Recommended:  H~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 184 approved meteorites classified as H~5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB89
  Table 3
  Line 15:
Date:28 Dec 2003
Latitude:72°57'06.7"S
Longitude:160°30'50.5"W
Mass (g):1.41
Pieces:1
Class:H~5
Magnetic suscept.:5.47
Classifier:A. Burroni and L. Folco, MNA-SI; magnetic classification, P. Rochette, CEREGE and L. Folco MNA-SI according to Rochette et al. (2003)
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)
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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Antarctica
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     Recommended::   (72° 57' 7"S, 160° 30' 51"E)

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     This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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