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Basic information | Name: Frontier Mountain 09013 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: FRO 09013 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 11 Dec 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 101:
Frontier Mountain 09013 (FRO 09013) 72°57.167’S, 160°28.342’E Antarctica, Antarctica Found: 9 Dec 2009 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3) History: Meteorite recovered by L. Folco and P. Rochette during the XXV PNRA expedition. Petrography: Average chondrule size: 600 ± 200 μm; metal content 6 vol%; mineral chemistry based on EPMA (25 olivine cores and 26 low-Ca pyroxene cores) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB101 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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) 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) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015
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Statistics: This is 1 of 239 approved meteorites from Antarctica, Antarctica This is 1 of 40744 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 4494 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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