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Frontier Mountain 10024
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 10024
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 10024
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Antarctica [Collected jointly by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy, and Korean Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites (KOREAMET)]
Mass:help 3.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11505 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 13 Jan 2012
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 480:
Origin or pseudonym:Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:8 Jan 2011
Latitude:72°57.121'S
Longitude:160°30.371'E
Mass (g):3.9
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):17.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.0
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2
Magnetic suscept.:5.16
Classifier:J. Nava, G. Capitani, UNIMIB
Type spec mass (g):2.95
Type spec location:MNA-SI
Main mass:MNA-SI
Finder:PNRA-KOREAMET
Comments:Submitted by L. Folco (MNA-SI)
Institutions
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MNA-SI: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011)
UNIMIB: Dip. di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126, Milano, Italy (institutional address; updated 13 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (72° 57' 7"S, 160° 30' 22"E)

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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