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Frontier Mountain 03041
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 03041
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 03041
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 12.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  H3-4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H3-4
Recommended:  H3-4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 20 approved meteorites classified as H3-4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB89
  Table 3
  Line 42:
Date:28 Dec 2003
Latitude:72°57'03.9"S
Longitude:160°30'51.3"W
Mass (g):12.31
Pieces:1
Class:H3-4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.5
Magnetic suscept.:4.8
Classifier:A. M. Fioretti and R. Carampin, Pad
Main mass:MNA-SI
Comments:br; thin section, 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' 4"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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