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Frontier Mountain 03060
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 03060
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 03060
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 1.59 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  H6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H6
Recommended:  H6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6825 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6.   [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 60:
Date:29 Dec 2003
Latitude:72°57'11.1"S
Longitude:160°26'25.3"W
Mass (g):1.59
Pieces:1
Class:H6
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W1/2
Fayalite (mol%):19.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.7
Magnetic suscept.:4.97
Classifier:A. Burroni and L. Folco, MNA-SI; magnetic classification, P. Rochette, CEREGE and L. Folco MNA-SI according to Rochette et al. (2003)
Comments:veined
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
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' 11"S, 160° 26' 25"E)

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