[meteorite-list] China's Antarctic Expedition Team Finds First Meteorite at Glove Mountain

[Jeff Grossman]

That's GROVE Mountains.  Looks like a transliteration problem.

Jeff

On 2009-12-31 6:17 PM, Ron Baalke wrote:
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/31/content_12733922.htm
>
> China's Antarctic expedition team finds first meteorite at Glove Mountain
> www.chinaview.cn
>
>      GLOVE MOUNTAIN, Antarctica, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's 26th
> Antarctic expedition team discovered its first meteorite at Antarctica's
> Glove Mountain Wednesday afternoon.
>
>      The team found the meteorite at the southern foot of Glove
> Mountain's peak, said Dr. Hu Sen, a researcher at the Institute of
> Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
>
>      "It is highly probable (that it is) a Chondrite judging from the
> failure surface," said Hu, adding that the meteorite weighed 221.5 grams.
>
>      Efflorescence makes it hard for meteorites to stay in densely
> populated areas, Hu explained, but they could last for millions of years
> in Antarctica's dry, cold weather.
>
>      Many of such meteorites were stopped by the mountains as they were
> carried along by running glaciers, he said. Therefore, a lot of
> meteorites could be found around the Antarctic mountain areas.
>
>      The Glove Mountain area, 400 km from China's Zhongshan Station, has
> proved to be one of the world's richest meteorite reserves. China has so
> far discovered 9,834 meteorites, including two Martian and several other
> special types of meteorites -- the third largest meteorite collection
> after Japan and the United States.
>
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