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Frontier Mountain 09006

Basic information

Name: Frontier Mountain 09006
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 09006
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass: 49.9 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 100	(2012)	L6
Recommended:			L6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 21 Apr 2012

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 457:

Origin or pseudonym:	Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:	9 Dec 2009
Latitude:	72°57.234'S
Longitude:	160°27.149'E
Mass (g):	49.9
Pieces:	1
Class:	L6
Shock stage:	S5
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	24.8±0.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):	22.4±1.1
Classifier:	M. D'Orazio, G. Paoli, DST-PI
Type spec mass (g):	49.9
Type spec location:	MNA-SI
Main mass:	MNA-SI
Comments:	Meteorite recovered by L. Folco and P. Rochette during the XXV PNRA expedition.; submitted by L. Folco

Institutions
and collections

DST-PI: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
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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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(72° 57' 14"S, 160° 27' 9"E)

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

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