A new variant of saponite‐rich micrometeorites recovered from recent Antarctic snowfall

• Published in: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
• Main Authors: SAKAMOTO, Kanako, NAKAMURA, Tomoki, NOGUCHI, Takaaki, TSUCHIYAMA, Akira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Tagish; Tagish Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01019.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1945-5100.2010.01019.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01019.x

Abstract– Eight saponite‐rich micrometeorites with very similar mineralogy were found from the recent surface snow in Antarctica. They might have come to Earth as a larger meteoroid and broke up into pieces on Earth, because they were recovered from the same layer and the same location of the snow....