[meteorite-list] Robert Scott's rock samples

[tracy latimer]

I've been processing for our library a bunch of new books, and came across 
the account of Scott and Amundsen.  Most people know the tragic story of 
Robert Scott, the explorer who raced Amundsen to be first to the South Pole, 
found he had been beaten there by a matter of days, and died on the return 
trip.  He was bringing back a load of rock samples that he had collected en 
route.

In present days, we know that rocks laying loose on the Antarctic ice sheets 
are as likely as not to be meteorites, because most other land is buried, 
except where the mountains jut out of the ice.  Has anyone ever looked at 
those samples Scott was bringing back and tested them to see if any are of 
meteoric origin?  It might be an interesting footnote if the first 
meteorites collected from Antarctica weren't found by a Japanese research 
team, but by Scott.

Tracy Latimer