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ANSMET blogs: So close to the 500-meteorite mark...

Posted By Emily Lakdawalla

2009/01/22 12:36 CST

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I just checked in to the daily blog of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) campaign and have posted more than a week's worth of their writings, in which Mother Nature plays games with them, alternately giving and taking away. Still, with dogged effort and some snowmobile repairs, they have managed to gather nearly 500 meteorites this season. And there's still just a little bit of time left...

• January 9-13, 2009: In Which Bad Days Provide More Blog Fodder Than Good Days
• January 14-18, 2009: Tantalizingly Close to the 500-Meteorite Mark

My favorite item from this last group of blogs was this graph, posted by Jani, which shows a very strong anticorrelation between the wind chill factor and number of meteorites they collect. More wind = fewer meteorites!