Links

Project links

• We are on twitter – follow us at @UKAntarcticMets 
• Svalbard field trial testing project overview
• British Antarctic Survey  (BAS)
• Leverhulme Trust who fund the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica project
• Earth and Solar System – meteorite and planetary science in Manchester in the Isotope group 

Meteorite classification

• Guidance on meteorite classification can be found at The Meteoritical Society
• The database of classified meteorites can be found at the Meteoritical Bulletin

Meteorite research in the UK

• See the UK Cosmochemical Research Network for more information

Other meteorite search teams

• ANSMET  is run from Case Western University http://caslabs.case.edu/ansmet/  – ANSMET programme and see this map of locations of meteorites recovered from the Transantarctic mountains at http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/map.cfm . Also see the NASA ARES meteorite curation site for details of recovered samples and associated science rationale for meteorite recovery and the Smithsonian who help classify the recovered ANSMET samples
• South Korea   https://koreamet.kopri.re.kr/  – recently they have been searching with an Italian team in the Frontier Mountains
• Belgium and Japan http://yamato.nipr.ac.jp/   do joint missions to the Yamoto and Asuka icefields area. The Belgium collection is described here.
• Nice summary of the 2017-2018 Italian trip by our colleague  Jérôme Gattacceca

Meteor observation and recovery programmes

• Australia desert fireball network http://fireballsinthesky.com.au/
• Fripon French meteor observation network https://www.fripon.org/
• UK Mon meteor network https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

Further reading on meteorite recovery from Antarctica

• The Origin and Significance of Antarctic Meteorites 

• 35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2010): A Pictorial Guide To The Collection

• Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: A Personal Account