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Frontier Mountain 99040 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Frontier Mountain 99040 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: FRO 99040 Observed fall: No Year found: 1999 Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 566 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CO3. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CM-CO clan chondrites, and CO chondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 84:
Frontier Mountain 99040 CO3 Abundant chondrules ( ~ 45 vol%) and refractory inclusions ( ~ 10 vol%) set in a fine-grained matrix; chondrule mean diameter 0.2 mm; metal abundance ~ 5 vol%; olivine, Fa1–49, pyroxene, Fs1–7. Mineralogy and classification by: B. Anselmi, C. Ferraris, and L. Folco (MNA-SI); R. Carampin, A. M. Fioretti, and G. Molin (UPad); M. Macrì, A. Maras, and M. Serracino (URoma). Oxygen-isotopic analyses by A. Sexton and I. A. Franchi (OU). For 1990 and 1993 samples, main masses at MNA-SI, type specimens at OU. For 1997 and 1999 samples, main masses, type specimens, and thin sections at MNA-SI. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB84 Table 2 Line 153: |
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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) OU: Planetary and Space Sciences Department of Physical Sciences The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom, United Kingdom (institutional address; updated 8 Dec 2011) URoma: Museo di Mineralogia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazzale Aldo Moro,5 I-00185 ROMA, Italy (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) UPad: Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse-CNR, University di Padova, Italy (institutional address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 40719 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 4494 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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