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Meteorite hunters don’t search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them – they go to Antarctica instead, because that’s where they are easiest to find.
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- ANSMET: a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains.
- Glacier: a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
- Meteorite: a meteor that survives its passage through the earth’s atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground.
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Mazapil Meteorite - James St. John
“Antarctica Satellite Map of Blue Ice“ and “Probability of Finding Meteorites“
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and data courtesy of Tollenaar, V., et al. (2022).
Antarctic Meteorite - NASA/JSC/ANSMET
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Antarctica’s Blue Ice | EROS. (n.d.).
Brennecka, G. (2022). Impact. HarperCollins.
I think I found a meteorite. How can I tell for sure? | U.S. Geological Survey. (n.d.)
Korotev, R. (n.d.). Some Meteorite Statistics | Some Meteorite Information | Washington University in St. Louis.
Korotev, R. (n.d.). [Letter to Cameron Duke].
Nabiei, F., Badro, J., Dennenwaldt, T., Oveisi, E., Cantoni, M., Hébert, C., El Goresy, A., Barrat, ., & Gillet, P. (2018). A large planetary body inferred from diamond inclusions in a ureilite meteorite. Nature Communications, 9(1).
Steigerwald, B. (2020, December 10). Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites. NASA.
Tollenaar, V., Zekollari, H., Tax, D., Goderis, S., Claeys, P., Pattyn, F., & Lerhmitte, S. (2022). Unexplored Antarctic meteorite collection sites revealed through machine learning. Science Advances, 8(4).
Treiman, A. H., LaManna, J. M., Hussey, D. S., deClue, I., & Anovitz, L. M. (2022). Coordinated neutron and X‐ray computed tomography of meteorites: Detection and distribution of hydrogen‐bearing materials. Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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