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Frontier Mountain 10098
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 10098
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 10098
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 2.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 477 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2012
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 503:
Origin or pseudonym:Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:15 Jan 2011
Latitude:72°57.170'S
Longitude:160°29.108'E
Mass (g):2.1
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W1/2
Fayalite (mol%):12.4 ± 8.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):8.0 ± 5.8
Wollastonite (mol%):0.8 ± 0.3
Magnetic suscept.:4.15
Classifier:L. Folco, MNA-SI
Type spec mass (g):1.04
Type spec location:MNA-SI
Main mass:MNA-SI
Finder:PNRA-KOREAMET
Comments:0.7 mm avg. chondrule size, metal abundance ca. 2 vol%, true glass to devitrified glass in chondrules; 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)
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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' 10"S, 160° 29' 6"E)

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