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 -- Mike Jensen IMCA 4264 Jensen Meteorites 16730 E Ada PL Aurora, CO 80017-3137 303-337-4361 > 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 > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
