header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 26 Mar 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Frontier Mountain 09019
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 09019
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 09019
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 16.6 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2060 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4.   [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 468:
Origin or pseudonym:Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:9 Dec 2009
Latitude:72°57.165'S
Longitude:160°29.022'E
Mass (g):16.6
Pieces:1
Class:L4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):25.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.8
Wollastonite (mol%):0.7
Classifier:S. Caporali, V.M. Cecchi, G. Pratesi, MSP
Type spec mass (g):16.6
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
MNA-SI: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011)
MSP: Museo di Scienze Planetarie, Via Galcianese 20/H, 59100 Prato, Italy, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 22 Oct 2022)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (72° 57' 10"S, 160° 29' 1"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
Proximity search:
Find nearby meteorites: enter search radius (km):
Also see:
  This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.
Revision
  history:
  This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page