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By my records, we're about at the midpoint of the field season.  The Team began ingress Dec 12 (after Johnny Alpine) with a full team by Dec 15.  We began meteorite hunting on December 16th.  So that's about 3 out of the 6 weeks complete in our mission. Let's start...

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As the relative novice on this year’s ANSMET team, with respect to meteorites and meteorite recovery, I’m fascinated and greatly impressed by the rest of the team’s knowledge and passion in the sciences associated with meteorites. This has been, for me, the ultimate field trip, with the ultimate mentors....

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Hi all,  I just got done talking to Jim Karner via the iridium phone. All is well out at Davis-Ward.  They acknowledge they haven't sent a blog post for a day or two,  but it's mostly because they've had good weather and are really working hard.  They report slightly...

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The first day of the year turned out to be quite a success for or ANSMET team. After a nice New Year’s Eve filled with great food, stories, and games, we woke up to yet another beautiful morning with perfect weather for collecting. Though today our searching area came...

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We finally caught a break in the weather today, and were able to dedicate a lot of time to both systematic searching the blue ice and foot searching a section of moraine. The morning started off by turning over large boulders and looking through the gravel caught up in...

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To begin with, my sincere apologies for my last blog, in which I incorrectly stated that Amundsen reached the South Pole on Dec. 14, 2011, when in fact, it was Dec. 14, 1911. Apologies for the typographical error - must have been the thin mountain air we’ve been experiencing...

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Hey friends! Today was Christmas here in Davis-Ward and what a Christmas it was! We had a late start as the last of that snow storm cleared out. It was nothing too shabby! Just enough to give our camp the white Christmas cheer that we needed! Everyone woke up...

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Merry Christmas to McMurdo! And Merry Christmas Eve to those of our friends that are stateside! Today is technically Christmas here but it got canceled (whomp whomp whomp). Well, actually, it got rescheduled. Because we have our resupply coming in on the 26th, we can’t stray far from camp....

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‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all across the ice, Not a creature was stirring, not even the mice. The Poo Tent was occupied, and the flag planted with care, In hopes that a movement  soon would be there. The meteorite hunters were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of achondrites danced...

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As you know, we have 2 amazing mountaineers for ANSMET: Dr. John Schutt and Mr. Brian Rougeux. Dr. John Schutt is 70 years young (!!! and still absolutely killing it out here in the field) and this is his 38th Antarctic season. He’s only missed one season (1989) since he’s...

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