Rob Coker, Larkman Nunatak, December 25, 2012
The public tale of the 2012-2013 ANSMET Expedition, funded by various Institutions interested in acquiring Knowledge for its own sake, has been told elsewhere, most prominently in our public wireless reports. Here, today, with the last vestiges of my humanity and sanity in tatters, I feel...
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Recon team, 25th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier
Happy Christmas! The wind and snow blowing dropped a little today allowing the recon team to get out for a few hours this Christmas afternoon at South Graves Icefield. We collected the two meteorites that we had found a few days back,...
Mini Wadhwa (ANSMET Systematic Search Team), December 24, 2012, Larkman Nunatak
…and all through the Scott tent, not a creature was stirring, not even the katabatic wind’s lament!
Actually, there has been quite a lot of stirring on this Christmas Eve here in camp. In fact, it was a regular workday...
One of the most common questions I get when people find out I run ANSMET is, "How can you stand being away from home over the holidays?" My answer is simple; Christmas in the field is pretty special, too. Without the trappings of wreaths, trees, decorations and carols, the...
Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 24th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier
Today the sky was clear and it was warm (-16 degC), but still very windy. We could not get out to search for meteorites and stayed in the tent most of the day. In the afternoon, we just dug out...
Marianne Mader, Systematic Team, Dec 23, 2012 Larkman Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region, Antarctica
Happy Holidays to all those at home! We found some early presents today out on the ice – 9 meteorites! This was welcomed considering we weren't sure if yesterday's blizzard was on its way out when we...
Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 23th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier
We are still in stuck in the storm. Yesterday Katie described about the importance of lunar meteorites, which are one of my main research interest as well. I would like to continue to talk about lunar meteorites a bit more....
Jim Karner, December 22, 2012 Larkman Nunatak
Well it’s a tent day, all day, here at Larkman. A tent day is one where the team is confined to camp, we can’t go out and hunt meteorites. Tent days are caused by a few different things, like it is too windy...
Katie Joy, South Graves Icefield, 22nd December 2012
Hello world
Hope that you are all still there as I think yesterday was earmarked to be the end of the world according to the Mayans. I didn’t put it my diary though so not sure if the date has passed or not....
Tomoko Arai, 21th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier
We have had very bad weather with temperature of -25degC and strong wind of 20-30 knots both yesterday and today. We are close to the South Pole (87 degree south latitude), and are in the middle of the strong wind, the so-called...