Going to Antarctica to Look for Meteorites

Fremantle Harbour, Australia

Fremantle Harbour, Australia

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  • Fremantle Harbour, Australia
  • The Shirase preparing for departure.
  • Bridge of the Shirase
  • Deck of the Shirase
  • Steven Goderis, a Belgian doctoral student from the Vrij Universiteit Brussel (VUB) who is taking part of the JARE 51 team looking for meteorites in the eastern Sør Rondane Mountains.
  • The Shirase, the new icebreaker of Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR)
  • Steven Goderis posing in front of the Shirase before departure.
  • A large iron meteorite that landed in Chilé decades ago.
  • The Marília Meteorite, a chondrite H4 that fell in Marília, Brazil in 1971.
  • A slice of the Esquel meteorite, a stony-iron meteorite, type pallasite.
  • A carbonaceous chondrite(CV3)meteorite found in Mexico in 1969 during the Allende meteorite shower.
  • An ordinary chondrite called
  • A Eucrite achondrite that fell to Earth in 1960 in Australia during the Millbillillie meteor shower. The meteorite has a shiny black fusion crust with flow lines.
  • NWA 869, an ordinary chondrite, cut and polished with visible chondrules and metal flakes.
  • An ordinary chondrite dubbed

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