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What do meteorites look like?   
Friday, December 23, 2005

Walker in grade 4, Bulloch Co., Georgia asks, "What does a meteorite look like?"

This is actually a harder question than it sounds, but let me see i

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one more photo and a video!   
I tried to post a video is from the second day of the 6 day storm we opened with at Miller Range, but it's too big for the McMurdo internet connection and times out. I'll try again later

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Yet more photos   
here comes 3 more.......

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3 more uploaded pictures   
Hi, Ralph again- 3 more uploaded pictures....

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News from 3 groups.....   
Hi, Ralph here, with an update from McMurdo. I'm here getting together the 3rd field party associated with ANSMET this year; myself and four scientists going to the Lewis Cliff Ice Tongue to st

An update from the Recon Team.   
December 20, 2005

I briefly spoke with Mike Wyatt on the Reconnaissance Team this evening before we lost the phone signal. Mike said that the meteorite hunting is going well. (Although the ba

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Still life on the ice.   
December 20, 2005

The wind has picked up a bit during the last couple of days, and the thick blanket of snow that is covering the blue ice (and making meteorite hunting impossible) is finally b

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More snow days.   
Sunday, December 18, 2005

There hasn't been too much to report for the last couple of days. Recent snowstorms have deposited between 6 and 8 inches of snow over this whole region. The wi

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