![]() ![]() The coming decade is expected to bring a veritable bonanza for the science of planets: space missions are scheduled to bring back samples of rock from the moon, Mars, the Martian moon of Phobos, and a primitive asteroid. Media coverage on the expedition includes reports on Science Magazine, CNN, NPR, , Forbes, and several international media outlets including Swissinfo, Tagesspiegel, VRT, Gizmodo Japan – and Saturday Night Live ! Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, the TAWANI Foundation, and the Meeker family. Valdes’s work is supported by the Field Museum’s Robert A. They were supported in part by the Belgian Science Policy. The team was guided by Manu Poudelet of the International Polar Guide Association and assisted by Alain Hubert. The meteorites recovered by the team will be analyzed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences meanwhile, sediment potentially containing tiny micrometeorites was divided among the researchers for study at their institutions. The researchers were the first to explore potential new meteorite sites mapped using satellite imagery by Veronica Tollenaar, a thesis student in glaciology at the ULB. Valdes was one of four scientists on the mission, led by Vinciane Debaille of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (FNRS-ULB) the research team was rounded out by Maria Schönbächler (ETH-Zurich) and Ryoga Maeda (VUB-ULB). “Size doesn’t necessarily matter when it comes to meteorites, and even tiny micrometeorites can be incredibly scientifically valuable,” says Valdes, “but of course, finding a big meteorite like this one is rare, and really exciting.” Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies and the University of Chicago, estimates that of the roughly 45,000 meteorites retrieved from Antarctica over the past century, only about a hundred or so are this size or larger. Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum's Robert A. ![]() An international team of researchers who just got back from Antarctica can attest to the continent’s meteorite-hunter-friendliness: they returned with five new meteorites, including one that weighs 16.7 pounds (7.6 kg), and micrometeorites-containing sediment. ![]()
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