[meteorite-list] Results of ANSMET Nomad Robotic Meteorite Recovery Effort?

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:44:27 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW8U+OmLfJDEJ3QsnME+0=zbDOMR+4gFsgNsBEXYA_SeBg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Listees,

I was recently reading some old reports about the "Nomad" effort to
recover meteorites from Antarctica using an autonomous robot. The
robot would follow a pattern in an area while surveying the
surroundings with cameras and sensors. Suspect rocks would be
visually analyzed at a distance and promising candidates would be
approach and analyzed in-situ using instruments on the rover. The
rover would then confirm if a rock was a meteorite and collect it if
the tests were positive.

I was able to find some press releases and media articles announcing
or promoting the project, but I could not find any follow-up with the
results. The old websites dedicated to the Nomad effort are down.
Does anyone know if the robot successfully recovered any meteorites?

Best regards,

MikeG

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Received on Thu 06 Mar 2014 09:44:27 PM PST