[meteorite-list] Korean Scientists Find 3.7 kg Meteorite in Antarctica

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:27:05 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200801150127.RAA13040_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200801/200801150010.html

Korean Polar Explorers Find Massive Meteorite

A team of Korean scientists in Antarctica has discovered a large
meteorite weighing 3.7 kg.

Digital Chosunilbo
January 15, 2008

The Korea Polar Research Institute under the Korea Ocean Research and
Development Institute said Monday that the country's second exploration
team to Antarctica discovered 13 meteorites in the western Thiel
Mountains on Dec. 24, 29 and 30.

Last year, the country's first exploration team to the southern
continent found five meteorites, but they weighed only between 200 and
400 g.

Meteorites, large pieces of rocks from outer space that have landed on
Earth, are important in the study of the creation of the solar system
and the evolution of the planets.

Antarctica accounts for just three percent of the Earth's surface, but
over 80 percent or 25,000 of all discovered meteorites have been found
there.

With a total of 18 meteorites discovered by the two exploration teams,
Korea has become the fifth holder of meteorites after the U.S., Japan,
China and Italy.
Received on Mon 14 Jan 2008 08:27:05 PM PST