Retrieval and Analysis of Extraterrestrial Particles from the Water Well at the South Pole Station, Antarctica

这个奖项是为了支持从南极洲南极站新水井底部收集微陨石。融化的大量雪和冰提供了收集大量低浓度冰中的微陨石所需的浓缩机制。该项目的第一个任务是设计一个收集系统，从井底回收微陨石。收集器必须可靠，易于操作，必须收集所有大于10mm的颗粒，并且不应污染井的水质。在成功设计和部署收集器后，回收的颗粒将被分类并分发给感兴趣的研究人员。＊＊＊

9316715 Taylor This award is for support to collect micrometeorites from the bottom of the new water well at South Pole Station, Antarctica. The large volume of firn and ice being melted provides the concentrating mechanism needed to collect large numbers of micrometeorites that occur in low concentrations in the ice. The first task of the project is to design a collection system to retrieve the micrometeorites from the bottom of the water well. The collector must be reliable, easy to operate, must collect all particles larger than 10 mm and should not contaminate the well's water quality. Following successful design and deployment of the collector, recovered particles will be catalogued and distributed to interested researchers. ***