Meteorite classification for building the Chinese Antarctic Meteorite Depository—Introduction of the classification of 500 Grove Mountains meteorites

• Main Authors: Zhipeng, Xia, Jie, Zhang, Bingkui, Miao, Ronglin, Ou, Lanfang, Xie, Rui, Yang, Yuan, Jing
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2016
• Subjects: Space; Antarctic; Grove Mountains; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research Institute of China; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2595/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2595/1/A020160108.pdf

Meteorites provide an important window into the origins and evolution of the solar system. Since the first four meteorites were recovered in Grove Mountains, Antarctica, in 1998, a further total of 12665 meteorites have been collected over seven polar seasons in the Grove Mountains. All of these met...