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Half way home

Ralph here,  in Sydney airport and still awake. For those of you who care, I thought I'd ipdate you on my personal progress home in spite of Sydney Airport's less-than-accommodating internet speeds.    it's about 9:40 am local, 11:40 my time (christchurch time) and I've got about 5 and...

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Sweep the leg!

Now, a quote from Karate Kid may seem like an odd subject line for a blog about correcting meteorites. Also, I realize that past blogs from me have a history of being slightly wanderingy (I’ve decided that this is in fact a word), but stay with me and this...

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a full half day

The winds were strong (~25 kts) again this morning, which caused us to stay in our tents until after lunch.  And unfortunately, due to the turbulence aloft, Ralph's scheduled pull-out flight was canceled.  Ralph's plans were to only be in the field for the first portion of the trip,...

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Christmas Eve at Davis-Ward

Christmas Eve was a productive day here at Davis-Ward.  Although the conditions were somewhat marginal in the morning, the last 2.5 days in our tents provided extra motivation for braving the winds and cloudy conditions.  Even with those drawbacks -- the poor lighting makes it harder to distinguish meteorites...

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