Collecting and Processing Victoria Land Meteorites

• Main Authors: John O. Annexstad, William A. Cassidy
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center/Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh 1980
• Subjects: Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1086; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001086/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1086&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Since 1977,the meteorites found in Victoria Land, Antarctica, have been carefully collected to preserve them in an uncontaminated state. The specimens are returned frozen to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for processing and curating in a manner similar to lunar samples. These methods have reduced chemical weathering and have provided researchers with a supply of clean meteorites for analysis.