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Frontier Mountain 01090
Basic information Name: Frontier Mountain 01090
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: FRO 01090
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 9.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  LL(L)3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  LL(L)3
Recommended:  LL(L)3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites classified as LL(L)3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB87
  Table 2
  Line 71:
Latitude:72°57'08"S
Longitude:160°27'37"E
Mass (g):9.9
Pieces:1
Class:LL(L)3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W0
Fayalite (mol%):0.5-35
Ferrosilite (mol%):1-32
Classifier:R. Carampin and A. M. Fioretti, UPad
Type spec location:MNA-SI
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)
UPad: Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy, Italy (institutional address; updated 20 Jun 2022)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (72° 57' 8"S, 160° 27' 37"E)

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     This is 1 of 44248 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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