[meteorite-list] Robert Scott's rock samples

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Hi Tracy

I just happened to run across an article yesterday on the Scott specimens you refer to. I was actually doing some research on orbicular granites, of which one was recovered and is pictured in the article. Though the article does not address your question about meteorites directly I suspect when you see who curates the specimens you will have your answer.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/collections/scott_index.htm

Mike
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> 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
> 
> 
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