Talk: Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica (41 min)
Talk: Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica (41 min)
Every year since the late 70's the US National Science Foundation has supported a team of space scientists to search for meteorites in Antarctica. Why Antarctica? The polar desert environment best preserves these precious samples of other worlds, which include shattered planetesimals, fragments of asteroids, and even rocks from the Moon and Mars. In this talk, I will discuss the scientific importance of meteorites, and the methods used to recover them from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Dr. Kress was a member of the ANSMET 2003-04 Expedition. (ANSMET = Antarctic search for meteorites)
http://geology.cwru.edu/~ansmet/
| Topics: |  Meteoroids |
Comments
Posted by Joakim Lindblom on December 31, 2009 5:04 pm
An interesting talk about Antarctic meteorites, though there it is more about the collection process than the actual science (which is covered towards the end of the talk).