Progress in study of Chinese Antarctic Meteorites

• Main Authors: Yangting, Lin, Daode, Wang, Ziyuan, Ouyang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2009
• Subjects: Space; Antarctic; Grove Mountains; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2377/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2377/1/A0090201.pdf

This paper reviews and summarizes the Chinese Antarctica meteorite search, classification and research. During the past four Antarctic explorations, a total of 9834 meteorites were collected in the Grove Mountains region. Among them, 2431 meteorites were classified by the end of 2008. So far, 684 me...