View the list of common questions about Antarctica and the expedition. If you have a question that is not answered here, please feel free to contact us and we'll try to provide an answer.

Some links to addition information about Antarctica or meteorites:

Current Antarctica weather (from Weather Underground)

ANSMET Project Home Page - Information about past expeditions and project history.

ANSMET wishes to express thanks to: The Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation who is the primary source of support for ANSMET, and has been since 1976. The Cosmochemistry program and Mars Exploration office of NASA also supports the field work and this support will grow in the next few years. NASA and the Smithsonian Institution characterize and curate the meteorites we recover; we spend a few weeks having fun collecting and they spend the rest of eternity taking care of our finds.

The Planetary Materials Curation area at Johnson Space center contains lots of information on Antarctic meteorite samples, lunar samples, cosmic dust and other interesting stuff. The Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter can be found there; a periodical published twice yearly that describes newly available Antarctic meteorite specimens.

AMLAMP, the Antarctic Meteorite Location and Mapping Program, keeps a database of the sites where meteorites have been found by US researchers. Cruise the table of contents to see images of meteorite stranding surfaces in Antarctica with meteorites superimposed.

NIPR Research Program for Antarctic Meteorites is the Japanese program that leads expeditions to Antarctica to recover meteorites. The Japanese were the first to systematically collect meteorites in Antarctica, and in fact they have collected more meteorites than the US program.

Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee is an advisory group to the Canadian Space Agency, dealing with issues concerning impact craters, meteorites, and related phenomena.

Planetary Science Research Discoveries (PSRD) Provides rewrites of research articles for a technically-minded audience. Many articles about meteorites and other topics that are of interest to space enthusiasts and astronomers (both amateur and professional), educators, and general readers.

Logistical support for Antarctic Projects is provided by Raytheon Polar Services Company, the prime contractor with the National Science Foundation.

The National Science Foundation has funded and supported the ANSMET program since 1976. Cruise this site to learn more about The Office of Polar Programs.

If you have specific questions about lunar and martian meteorites you couldn't find answers to at the Johnson Space Center, Try Washington Universities lunar meteorite site , the Mars Meteorite Compendium at JSC, or the Lunar and Planetary Institute's page dedicated to ALH84001.



Got a general question about meteorites not yet answered? Visit the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory site on Meteorites and Their Properties.


ANSMET would also like to thank the following supporters of the 2001-2002 Expedition:

webExpeditions.net - For designing and producing this web site.

Minnesota Astronomical Society and Minnesota Space Frontier Society - For their generous support of the Iridium airtime required to make XJournal possible.