Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Frontier Mountain 10057

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Frontier Mountain 10057

Basic information

Name: Frontier Mountain 10057
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 10057
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: 3 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 100	(2012)	H3
Recommended:			H3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 710 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 1 Feb 2012

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 486:

Origin or pseudonym:	Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:	15 Jan 2011
Latitude:	72°57.110'S
Longitude:	160°30.407'E
Mass (g):	3.0
Pieces:	1
Class:	H3
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	17.0 ± 2.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):	14.0 ± 5.9
Wollastonite (mol%):	1 ± 0.5
Magnetic suscept.:	4.95
Classifier:	I. De Leo, G. Capitani, UNIMIB
Type spec mass (g):	2.12
Type spec location:	MNA-SI
Main mass:	MNA-SI
Finder:	PNRA-KOREAMET
Comments:	Submitted by L. Folco (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)
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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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(72° 57' 7"S, 160° 30' 24"E)

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

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