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Journal on Collecting Meteorites in the Antarctic

Here's a website about Luann Becker's travels in Antarctica collecting
meteorites:

http://govt.us.oracle.com/govt/owassi/mdocs/index.html

She is currently in the Antarctic right now, and the team is finding
about 75 new meteorites daily!  One meteorite in particular may
possibly be a new lunar meteorite or eucrite, pending laboratory analysis.
Look at the Guided Tour in the Photo Journal section which
gives a day-by-day journal of her experiences there.

I met Luann Becker at the SPIE conference in San Diego last summer.
Luann had presented a paper at the conference about the possible terrestrial 
contamination of the ALH84001 meteorite.  Dave McKay, who is one of the
co-authors of the now famous ALH84001 paper on the possible microfossils
in ALH84001, was also present at the conference and denounced her results
then.  Luann has since continued her studies with a similar paper
just recently released in Science magainze, and has traveled to the Antarctic
to obtain additional supporting evidence.

Ron Baalke