Possibility of detecting meteorites buried within the ice by radio echo sounding

• Main Authors: Fumihiko Nishio, Makoto Wada, Shinji Mae
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1981
• Subjects: Allan Hills; Yamato; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1198; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001198/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1198&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Recovery of large numbers of Yamato meteorites and Allan Hills meteorites in Antarctica led us to postulate the presence of meteorite pieces still buried in the ice. To elucidate the concentration mechanism of a large number of meteorites within a limited region in the bare ice areas, it may be sign...