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Frontier Mountain 12009

Basic information

Name: Frontier Mountain 12009
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 12009
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass: 9.5 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	L4
Recommended:			L4 [explanation]

This is 1 of 2062 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 6 Jan 2015

Data from:
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Origin or pseudonym:	Frontier Mountain
Date:	18 Dec 2012
Latitude:	72°57.145'S
Longitude:	160°30.219'E
Mass (g):	9.5
Pieces:	1
Class:	L4
Shock stage:	S4
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	22
Ferrosilite (mol%):	18.8
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.7
Magnetic suscept.:	4.52
Classifier:	L. Folco (DST-PI, UniPi)
Type spec mass (g):	9.5
Type spec location:	MNA-SI
Main mass:	MNA-SI
Comments:	Breccia; recovered during the XXVIII PNRA expedition (2012-2013); submitted by Luigi 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. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full

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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(72° 57' 9"S, 160° 30' 13"E)

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

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