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- From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Subject: polar meteorites
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.124935.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:19:35 GMT
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- Re. finding meteorites...
-
- >>
- >>Why has no one looked in Greenland?
- >
- > Over 100 feet of ice pack has formed since 1944 in Greenland. The P-38s
- > recently recovered there were buried under 100 feet of ice. Anything
- > that falls there quickly becomes buried deeply in the ice. In Antarctica,
- > there are large areas where the annual snowfall is measured in fractional
- > inches. So meteorites that fall there are easier to find without extensive
- > drilling.
- >
- > Gary
- >
- > --
- > Gary Coffman KE4ZV
-
- Seems to me I remember a childhood reference which stated that Peary found
- a rather large meteorite (multiton) that had been mined by the local residents
- for some time (decades/centuries/millenia???). In any case, I think he took it
- back to the US. The picture still in my mind (or maybe imagination) is of
- a rocky barrens. In such a place, the same logic as Antarctica would
- apply, I suppose.
-
- John Garland
- jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
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