Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Frontier Mountain 09022

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Frontier Mountain 09022

Basic information

Name: Frontier Mountain 09022
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 09022
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2009
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass: 8.2 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 100	(2012)	H6
Recommended:			H6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6825 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 21 Apr 2012

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 471:

Origin or pseudonym:	Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:	9 Dec 2009
Latitude:	72°57.151'S
Longitude:	160°29.357'E
Mass (g):	8.2
Pieces:	1
Class:	H6
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	18.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.9
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.3
Classifier:	S. Caporali, V.M. Cecchi, G. Pratesi, MSP
Type spec mass (g):	8.2
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)

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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' 9"S, 160° 29' 21"E)

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

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