Curation and classification procedures for the UK Antarctic meteorite collectionOPEN ACCESS
J. L. MacArthur, K. H. Joy, R. H. Jones, T. A. Harvey, N. V. Almeida MAPS, Version of Record online: 27 October 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The field of advanced curation is important…
Cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites from the Otway Massif blue ice area, Antarctica: An unusual, well-preserved H5 chondrite strewn fieldOPEN ACCESS
Kees C. Welten, Marc W. Caffee, Monika E. Kress, Marlene D. Giscard, A. J. Timothy Jull, Ralph P. Harvey, John Schutt MAPS, Version of Record online: 12 September 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The…
Chrome-rich spinels in micrometeorites from modern Antarctic sedimentary deposits
Flore Van Maldeghem, Ryoga Maeda, Bastien Soens, Martin D. Suttle, Lisa Krämer Ruggiu, Carole Cordier, Akira Yamaguchi, Birger Schmitz, Philippe Claeys, Luigi Folco, Steven Goderis Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 641, 1 September 2024, 118837…
Elemental and oxygen isotopic fractionation recorded in highly vaporized cosmic spherules from Widerøefjellet, Sør Rondane Mountains (East Antarctica)
Tom Boonants, Steven Goderis, Bastien Soens, Flore Van Maldeghem, Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Frank Vanhaecke, Matthias van Ginneken, Christophe Snoeck, Philippe Claeys MAPS, Version of Record online: 13 May 2024 LINK “Upon passage through Earth’s atmosphere,…
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warmingOPEN ACCESS
Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Christoph Kittel, Daniel Farinotti, Stef Lhermitte, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Katherine Helen Joy & Frank Pattyn Nature Climate Change, Published: 08 April 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “More…
Pairing relations within CO3 chondrites recovered at the Dominion Range and Miller Range, Transantarctic mountains: Constraints from chondrule olivines, noble gas, and H, C, N bulk and isotopic compositions
K. Righter, C. M. O’D. Alexander, D. I. Foustoukos, L. M. Eckart, C. A. K. Mertens, H. Busemann, C. Maden, J. Schutt, C. E. Satterwhite, R. P. Harvey, K. Pando, J. Karner MAPS, Version of…
The identification of airbursts in the past: Insights from the BIT-58 layer
Matthias van Ginneken, Ralph P. Harvey, Steven Goderis, Natalia Artemieva, Mark Boslough, Ryoga Maeda, Jérôme Gattacceca, Luigi Folco, Akira Yamaguchi, Corinne Sonzogni, Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 627, 1 February 2024, 118562 LINK…
Overview of the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica field campaignsOPEN ACCESS
K. H. Joy, A. R. D. Smedley, J. L. MacArthur, W. van Verre, L. A. Marsh, M. Rose, T. A. Harvey, R. Tartèse, R. H. Jones, I. D. Abrahams, J. W. Wilson, A. J. Peyton,…
Fluid mobilization of rare earth elements, Th, and U during the terrestrial alteration of H chondrites
Ryoga Maeda, Steven Goderis, Akira Yamaguchi, Thibaut Van Acker, Frank Vanhaecke, Vinciane Debaille, Phillippe Claeys MAPSVersion of Record online: 28 June 2023 LINK “The chemical effects of terrestrial alteration, with a particular focus on lithophile…
Five Meteorites found during Antarctic reconnaissance mission to find new meteorite accumulation areas
On 18 January 2023 the Université Libre de Bruxelles announced that five meteorites, including a 7.6-kilogram mass (H chondrite) and the first find, a 150-gram specimen, have been recovered during a reconnaissance mission by an…
Assessment of petrologic subtypes, subgroups, and pairing within CV chondrites in the US Antarctic meteorite collection
Kevin Righter, Ryan S. Jakubek, Marc D. Fries, John Schutt, Kellye Pando, Roger Harrington MAPS, Version of Record online: 08 December 2022 LINK “Carbonaceous chondrites of the Vigarano group (CV) are primitive (nearly un-metamorphosed) meteorites…
A Review of Research on Grove Mountains CM-Type ChondritesOPEN ACCESS
Wenjie Shen, Zhipeng Liang, Tianxiang Zou, Zhijun Yang, Weisheng Hou, Meng Zhou and Jialin Gong Minerals 2022, 12(5), 619 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “CM chondrite is the most important carbonaceous chondrite containing abundant Ca,…
Artificial weathering of an ordinary chondrite: Recommendations for the curation of Antarctic meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Matthias van Ginneken, Vinciane Debaille, Sophie Decrée, Steven Goderis, Alan B. Woodland, Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Marleen De Ceukelaire, Thierry Leduc, Philippe Claeys MAPSVersion of Record online: 05 May 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorites are…
Unexplored Antarctic meteorite collection sites revealed through machine learningOPEN ACCESS
Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Stef Lhermitte, David M.J. Tax, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys and Frank Pattyn Science Advances • 26 January 2022 • Vol 8, Issue 4 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary…
Second Russian meteorite search and reconnaissance expedition at Mikheev mountains, southern Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica (11/2021) – one confirmed meteorite has been found
Last update: 22 December 2021 On 13 November the search team of Ural Federal University (UrFU) and Kazan Federal University (KFU) left South Africa and landed at Novolazarevskaya Research Station in Antarctica after a 5-hour…
Status Note on Indian Attempts to Search for Meteorites in AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
Ashit Kumar Swain Journal of the Geological Society of IndiaVol.97, August 2021, pp.915-922Published: 07 August 2021 LINKPDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The study of meteorites is gaining importance due to its importance in understanding the development of…
Identification and pairing reassessment of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites from four Antarctic dense collection areas
Kevin Righter, John Schutt, Nicole Lunning, Ralph Harvey, James Karner Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 24 July 2021 LINK “New analyses of Cr2O3 contents of olivines from type II chondrules in unequilibrated chondrites (UOC) from…
The effects of Antarctic alteration and sample heterogeneity on Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf systematics in H chondrites
Ryoga Maeda, Steven Goderis, Vinciane Debaille, Hamed Pourkhorsandi, Geneviève Hublet, Philippe Claeys Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 12 May 2021 LINK “Long-lived radioactive isotope systematics, such as Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf, are…
The discovery of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains: How the 1969 discoveries changed planetary science
Akira Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Shiraishi, Ralph Harvey Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceInvited ReviewVersion of Record online: 27 January 2021 LINK “No abstract is available for this article.”
A detailed record of the BELARE 2019－2020 meteorite recovery expedition on the Nansen Ice Field, East AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
Steven Goderis, Mehmet Yesiltas, Hamed Pourkhorsandi, Naoki Shirai, Manu Poudelet, Martin Leitl, Akira Yamaguchi, Vinciane Debaille, Philippe Claeys Antarctic Record 65:1-20 – Conference Paper LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This report summarizes the Belgian Antarctic…
Advances in Cosmochemistry Enabled by Antarctic MeteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Timothy J. McCoy, and Devin L. Schrader Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Vol. 48:233-258 (Volume publication date May 2020)First published as a Review in Advance on January 8, 2020 LINK (OPEN…
Sampling interplanetary dust from Antarctic air
S. Taylor, J. H. Lever, K. D. Burgess, R. M. Stroud, D. E. Brownlee, L. R. Nittler, A. Bardyn, C. M. O’D. Alexander, K. A. Farley, J. Treffkorn, S. Messenger, P. J. Wozniakiewicz Meteoritics &…
The spatial flux of Earth’s meteorite falls found via Antarctic dataOPEN ACCESS
G.W. Evatt, A.R.D. Smedley, K.H. Joy, L. Hunter, W.H. Tey, I.D. Abrahams, L. Gerrish Geology, 29 April 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Contemporary calculations for the flux of extraterrestrial material falling to the Earth’s…
Solar radiative transfer in Antarctic blue ice: spectral considerations, subsurface enhancement, inclusions, and meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Andrew R. D. Smedley, Geoffrey W. Evatt, Amy Mallinson, and Eleanor Harvey The Cryosphere, 14, 789–809, 2020 Published: 05 Mar 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We describe and validate a Monte Carlo model…
Antarctic meteorite recovery during BELARE 2019-2020 – 66 finds (1-889 g /~ 8.28 kg)
Last update: 26 January 2021 LINK “Following successful recovery missions in 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2018-2019, an international team of Belgian, Turkish and Japanese scientists has recovered 66 meteorites in the 2019-2020 season, totaling more…
Design and construction of a bespoke system for the detection of buried, iron-rich meteorites in Antarctica
John W. Wilson, Liam A. Marsh, Wouter Van Verre, Michael C. Rose, Geoffrey Evatt, Andrew R.D. Smedley and Anthony J. Peyton Antarctic ScienceVolume 32, Issue 1 February 2020 , pp. 58-69 LINK “Iron-rich meteorites are…
69 ‘surface meteorites’ but no subsurface specimens found – Panel sledge detector system has broken – UK meteorite search in Antarctica 2019/2020 – Lost meteorites of Antarctica Project
Last update: 4 January 2024 The 2019/20 main field trip of the project Lost Meteorites of Antarctica to recover subsurface iron meteorites on some blue icefields in Antarctica did not end as planned. Four members…
Interstellar 60Fe in Antarctica
Dominik Koll, Gunther Korschinek, Thomas Faestermann, J. M. Gómez-Guzmán, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Silke Merchel, and Jan M. Welch Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 072701 – Published 12 August 2019 LINK “Earth is constantly bombarded with extraterrestrial dust containing…
UK meteorite search reconnaissance mission in Antarctica 2018/2019 – 36 meteorites found
Last update: 10 May 2022 On a blue icefield meteorite search reconnaissance mission members of the UK Polar Meteorite Exploration and Research team consisting of Katherine (Katie) Joy and field guide Julie Baum have found…
Unravelling the high-altitude Nansen blue ice field meteorite trap (East Antarctica) and implications for regional palaeo-conditions
Harry Zekollari, Steven Goderis, Vinciane Debaille, Matthias van Ginneken, Jérôme Gattacceca, ASTER Team, A.J. Timothy Jull, Jan Lenaerts, Akira Yamaguchi, Philippe Huybrechts, Philippe Claeys Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Available online 4 January 2019. LINK “Antarctic…
Accumulation mechanisms of micrometeorites in an ancient supraglacial moraine at Larkman Nunatak, AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Genge, Matthias Ginneken, Martin D. Suttle, Ralph P. Harvey Meteoritics & Planetary Science First published: 16 May 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the discovery of a large accumulation of…
ANSMET 2017/18 Field Season – End count: 263 finds (2 February 2018)
Last update: 2 February,2018 On 15 December, the first day in the field, team A found the first four meteorites near Mount Cecily in the Grosvenor Mountains. On 10 January the biggest meteorite of the…
Bulk chemical compositions of Antarctic meteorites in the NIPR collection
M. Kimura, N. Imae, A. Yamaguchi, H. Haramura, H. Kojima Polar Science doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2017.12.001 Available online 5 December 2017 LINK “Bulk chemical compositions of meteorites were traditionally analyzed by wet chemical analysis, and NIPR has data…
Cosmogenic Nuclides in Antarctic Meteorites: Opportunities and Directions
Caffee M. W. * Herzog G. F. Jull A. J. T. Nishiizumi K. Welten K. C. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6150] abstract (PDF) “Cosmogenic nuclide studies of Antarctic meteorites have allowed…
In Situ Thermal Imagery of Antarctic Meteorites and Their Stability on the Ice Surface
Harvey R. P. Righter M. Karner J. M. Hynek B. Keller L. Meshik A. Mittlefehldt D. W. Radebaugh J. Rougeux B. Schutt J. W. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6113] abstract (PDF)
A multi-technique search for the most primitive CO chondrites
C.M.O’D. Alexander, R.C. Greenwood, R. Bowden, J.M. Gibson, K.T. Howard, I.A. Franchi Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 April 2017 LINK “As part of a study to identify the most…
Variation of mineralogy and organic material during the early stages of aqueous activity recorded in Antarctic micrometeorites
T. Noguchi, H. Yabuta, S. Itoh, N. Sakamoto, T. Mitsunari, A. Okubo, R. Okazaki, T. Nakamura, S. Tachibana, K. Terada, M. Ebihara, N. Imae, M. Kimura, H. Nagahara Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted…
First Meteorites from a Russian Antarctic Expedition
C. A. Lorenz, M. A. Ivanova, N. G. Zinovieva, N. N. Kononkova, G. A. Yakovlev, E. V. Petrova, R. F. Muftakhetdinova, M. Yu. Larionov, V. I. Grokhovsky 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract…
First British meteorite search expedition to Antarctica in 2019/20 – Searching for iron meteorites
Last update: 28 March 2018 A first British meteorite expedition to Antarctica to locate subsurface iron meteorites in 2019/20 is being planned. The expedition of a University of Manchester multidisciplinary research team is operationally and…
ANSMET 2016 / 2017 Field Season – total of 219 meteorites found
Last update: 19 January During this year’s very short ANSMET season a total of 219 meteorites, including a big ordinary chondrite, an iron specimen and several carbonaceous chondrites, have been found since January 7. The…
Steingarden Nunataks 07009 (ex Queenmet icefields 07009) as ungrouped iron in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Steingarden Nunataks 07009, formerly known as ‘Queenmet Icefields 07009 (QMI 07009)’, has been classified as ungrouped iron and is now registered in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. [wc_row][wc_column size=”one-half” position=”first”] [/wc_column][wc_column size=”one-half” position=”last”] [/wc_column][/wc_row] Writeup from…
Search and Recover of Antarctic Meteorites from Lomonosov Mountains, Queen Maud Land by the First Russian Meteorite Expedition
Larionov M. Yu. Grokhovsky V. I. Kolunin R. N. Pastukhovich A. Yu. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6369 abstract
Cluster analysis on the bulk elemental compositions of Antarctic stony meteorites.
Miyamoto, H., Niihara, T., Kuritani, T., Hong, P. K., Dohm, J. M. and Sugita, S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12634 abstract “Remote sensing observations by recent successful missions to small bodies have revealed the…
A potential hidden layer of meteorites below the ice surface of AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
G. W. Evatt, M. J. Coughlan, K. H. Joy, A. R. D. Smedley, P. J. Connolly, I. D. Abrahams PDF (open access) Supplementary Notes and References (PDF) Nature Communications 7, Article number: 10679 doi:10.1038/ncomms10679 Published…
Aqueous Corrosion of Olivine in the Mars Meteorite Miller Range (MIL) 03346 During Antarctic Weathering: Implications for Water on Mars
Michael A. Velbel Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 15 February 2016 LINK “Several nakhlites (clinopyroxenite meteorites from Mars) contain olivine phenocrysts with corrosion features identical in size, shape and distribution…
The weathering of micrometeorites from the Transantarctic Mountains
Matthias van Ginneken, Matthew J. Genge, Luigi Folco, Ralph P. Harvey Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.045 LINK “Micrometeorites are cosmic dust particles recovered from the Earth’s…
The ANSMET 2015 / 2016 Field Season has ended – 569 samples collected including a basketball-sized OC, a possible pallasite, and a possible howardite (updated: Jan 24)
Last update: January 24, 2016 On December 18 the search team found the first three meteorites. Additonal twelve meteorites were found on December 20, the second day of hunting. The next day several meteorites were…
Ural Federal University’s first Antarctic meteorite search expedition 2015/16 – at least two meteorites, LOM 15001, an H-chondrite, and LOM 15002, a monomict Eucrite, have been found (updated: Apr 10, 2021)
Last update: April 10, 2021 First Meteorites from a Russian Antarctic Expedition C. A. Lorenz, M. A. Ivanova, N. G. Zinovieva, N. N. Kononkova, G. A. Yakovlev, E. V. Petrova, R. F. Muftakhetdinova, M. Yu….
New 1/10 scale 3D model of the Chelyabinsk main mass will be shown at 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Berkeley / Plans on Russian Antarctic meteorite search expedition presented
On July 9 the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg informed about a new 1/10 scale 3D model of the Chelyabinsk main mass which will be publicly presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical…
Mineralogy and noble gas isotopes of micrometeorites collected from Antarctic snow
Ryuji Okazaki, Takaaki Noguchi, Shin-ichi Tsujimoto, Yu Tobimatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Mitsuru Ebihara, Shoichi Itoh, Hiroko Nagahara, Shogo Tachibana, Kentaro Terada, Hikaru Yabuta Earth, Planets and Space 2015, 67:90 (17 June 2015) PDF abstract
36.7 kg meteorite found at Elephant Moraine by Korean Antarctic reconnaissance helicopter search team
A Korean reconnaissance helicopter meteorite search team has apparently found a 36.7 kg meteorite with a diameter of ~30 cm at a location about 300km away from Jang Bogo Station on the Elephant Moraine (Antarctica)…
Ice structure discovered at position 69°48’00.0″S 32°15’36.0″E on Roi Baudoin Ice Shelf, Princess Ragnhild Coast, Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica is not connected to 2004 superbolide
UPDATE (17 February 2015) The giant circular scar on the King Baudouin Ice Shelf: a glaciologist’s perspective Interview with Dr. Jan Lenaerts (17 February 2015) Taking a second look at the circular scar on the…
Search team of the Korean Polar Research Institute has found 11kg meteorite in Antarctica
The meteorite (21cm x 21cm x 18cm) was found about 300 km southwest of the new Jang Bogo Station * LINK LINK (Original)
Cometary dust in Antarctic ice and snow: Past and present chondritic porous micrometeorites preserved on the Earth’s surface
Takaaki Noguchi, Noriaki Ohashi, Shinichi Tsujimoto, Takuya Mitsunari, John P. Bradley, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoichi Toh, Thomas Stephan, Naoyoshi Iwata, Naoya Imae Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 410, 15 January 2015, Pages 1–11 available online…
The 18.07 kg Asuka 12389 (LL3-6) on permanent display in Muséum des Sciences naturelles in Brussels, Belgium.
The 18.07 kg Asuka 12389 (LL3-6) on permanent display in Muséum des Sciences naturelles in Brussels, Belgium. Asuka 12389 (in the museum) Asuka 12389 (in situ) LINK
