Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Frontier Mountain 09013

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Frontier Mountain 09013

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: 16 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 101	(2012)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 793 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

Writeup

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
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State/Prov/County:	Antarctica
Origin or pseudonym:	Frontier Mountain icefield
Date:	9 Dec 2009
Latitude:	72°57.167'S
Longitude:	160°28.342'E
Mass (g):	16
Pieces:	1
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S4
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	22.5±4.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):	14.0±6.4
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.0±0.9
Magnetic suscept.:	4.97
Classifier:	M. Macri, M. Serracino, A. Maras, URoma
Type spec mass (g):	16
Type spec location:	MNA-SI
Main mass:	MNA-SI
Comments:	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)
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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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(72° 57' 10"S, 160° 28' 21"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 43699 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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