Andrew Beck, December 20th 2012, Larkman Nunatak, Antarctica
With -15 air temperature and 13-15 knot winds, today was a rather brisk day at Larkman Nunatak. We awoke to a marginal amount of snowdrift around our equipment, but not enough to hamper the start of the day. Our first order of...
Monthly Archives: December 2012
By Tom Sharp
December 19, 2012
Today was the first day at Larkman Nunatak. Larkman is the peak of a large mountain poking its head above the thick layer of continental glacier that covers most of Antarctica. This is a very windy place. Any rough edges of the Nunatak have been...
Katie Joy, Graves Icefield, 19th December 2012
Blue skies have returned and today the recon team moved from our snowy home on the Klein Glacier surrounded by mountains to the bleakness of the Graves icefield. A Twin Otter aircraft arrived from the South Pole around 9 am this morning, and...
Stan Love, 2012 December 17 Mt., Bumstead Icefield Camp
Astute readers will have already figured out that this photo does not show a meteorite. Or a person looking for a meteorite. Or anything even remotely related to meteorites. Those readers will be correct on the first two points, but not...
Rob Coker, December 16th, Mt. Bumstead
Today we found some meteorites! So I thought I'd spell out what we do when we find one (besides the obvious jumping up and down in joy). Once we sort of agree that it is a meteorite (we don't *have* to agree actually), we...
Tomoko Arai, 18th December, 2012, Klein Glacier
The reconnaissance team did a meteorite search in Scott Glacier yesterday. It took one hour commuting drive by snowmobile to get there. The weather was just beautiful without wind. We found three meteorites in the morning and two in the afternoon. One looked...
Tomoko Arai, 16th December, 2012, Klein Glacier
Today is the first day of the meteorite search for the reconnaissance team in Gardner Ridge. The windless, relatively warm (- 21 deg C!), beautiful weather is perfect for meteorite hunting. We left our camp in Klein glacier at 9 am, and reached...
Katie Joy, Klein Glacier, 15th December 2012
John, Joe, Tomoko and I reached the Klein Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains yesterday (Friday). We took off at about 10 am from Pegasus air strip close to McMurdo on a LC-130 US air force plane, which is a Hercules equipped with...
Mini Wadhwa, December 14, 2012, Mt. Bumstead Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region What makes one Antarctic blue icefield such a prolific source of new meteorites, while others are virtually devoid of such riches? If we are to answer this question, we need to understand why blue ice is found...
Marianne Mader, Dec 14, 2012 Systematic Team, Mt. Mount Bumstead Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region
Yesterday we moved from our temporary camp at the Otway landing strip to our first ‘home away from home’ near Mount Bumstead (see photo of our camp). The weather has been beautiful - blue skies, low...