[meteorite-list] POP QUIZ Fridays Answer

[Shawn Alan]

Yamato 691 was recoverd before the ANSMET was founded.....
 
excerpt from Meteorite, Ice, and Antarctica
 
At that time, Dr. Mort Turner was Program Manager for Geology
at the former Division of Polar Programs (now known as Office
of Polar Programs), and I had gotten to know him in the course of
events involved in my unsuccessful research proposal. In an agony
of frustration, I called him up and gave him the latest news. After
only a moment, he said in a thoughtful tone of voice, “Well, the panel
has just declined your proposal again, but they did not have this information.
I urge you to resubmit it immediately, and I think it will
be funded.” And that is the way it turned out: we were funded for
the 1976–77 summer field season, on the third try. The project would
become known as the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, or ANSMET.
The Japanese, meanwhile, recovered 307 more specimens during the
1975–76 austral summer.
 
So it seems the program was first introducted in 76-77. At that time I wonder if it was just the American with the program because I think now the program also has teams from other countries now.
 
Shawn Alan 
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--- On Mon, 5/9/11, Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] POP QUIZ Fridays Answer
To: photophlow at yahoo.com, carloselguapo1 at hotmail.com, bandk at chorus.net, cspratt at islandnet.com
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 5:50 PM



Shawn:

Is Yamato 691 the very first ever found in Antartica? It was 1969.

Greg S

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> Kirk, Carl2, Chris, and who ever else :)
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> As for the question it wasn't a trick. I can see from many sources that they both say ALH76001 was found in Dec 76 and also Mount Baldr in Dec 76. Chris also had provided a link to a site which stated that the Mount Baldr was found in Dec 76 a month before ALH76001 but it also says ALH67001 was found in Dec76 as well. If you guys already know this the first two numbers with the Antarctica meteorites corresponds to the year found and the last three numbers is the order of which it was looked at by scientist, which this doesn't mean that it was the first one found in that area from that year just means it was looked at in that order.
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> A few weeks ago I had emailed members from MetSoc with a question and a professor from Berkley had told to me the ALH76001 was the first meteorite found by the ANSMET team, so I thought that would make a good pop quiz question. And now here we are with the question which one was found first.....
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> In the mean time I have contacted a few people that worked with the ANSMET team and also emailed people that were around when the team was first made back in the 70's. So lets see what happens because I am also interested in knowing what was the first meteorite found by the team on the ice because this program is very important to meteoritical science and be nice to know for sure.
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> I also sent in Mount Baldr??
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> Kirk.....:-)
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> > Hi Shawn, Chris and all,
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> > Buried beneath this recent Mifflin mess was Shawn's latest Pop Quiz and
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> > question from Chris S.concerning the first ANSMET meteorite. I, also,
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> > thought Mount Baldr was the first. Was this a trick question? Seems there
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> > were more than one who said ALH 76001, so I'm a bit confused.
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> > Thanks to Shawn for the time he makes for these fun quizzes.:)
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> > ...Thought Mount Baldr was the first. See:
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> > http://geology.cwru.edu/~amlamp/DryValleys/MBR/MBR96text.
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> > What is the first ANSMET meteorite to be collected?
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> > Allan Hills 76001 (ALHA 76001)found in 1976 or 1978 by the ANSMET team.
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