Journey to the Bottom of the World: Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica
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In this webinar presentation, Dr. McFadden, a research professor in the University of Maryland’s Astronomy Department and Co-investigator of NASA's Dawn Mission, recounts her experiences as one of eight field team members of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET). The team spent 42 days from late November 2007 to January 2008 searching for meteorites on foot and by snowmobile in the Miller Range of Antarctica.
ANSMET offered McFadden an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the planetary material arriving here on Earth from the asteroids orbiting the solar system, two of which are being studied by NASA's Dawn mission: the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.In this webinar presentation, Dr. McFadden, a research professor in the University of Maryland’s Astronomy Department and Co-investigator ...all »In this webinar presentation, Dr. McFadden, a research professor in the University of Maryland’s Astronomy Department and Co-investigator of NASA's Dawn Mission, recounts her experiences as one of eight field team members of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET). The team spent 42 days from late November 2007 to January 2008 searching for meteorites on foot and by snowmobile in the Miller Range of Antarctica.
ANSMET offered McFadden an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the planetary material arriving here on Earth from the asteroids orbiting the solar system, two of which are being studied by NASA's Dawn mission: the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.«
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