Antarctic Search for Meteorites

该奖项是为了支持ANSMET（南极搜索）， 陨石）计划。 该项目的首要目标是 在南极洲找到并收集陨石，并将它们送回 分发给感兴趣的科学研究人员。 第二个进球 是为了了解陨石的密度 到冰盖动力学。 ANSMET集合包括许多 以前未知类型和种类的陨石;续 预计收集将提供更多这样的标本， 包括新的月球样本和其他可能来自火星的样本。 对陨石搁浅表面的实地研究将继续进行， 收集关于不完全理解的关系的信息 暴露在外的冰和陨石浓度之间的关系

This award is in support of the ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) program. The first goal of the project has been to locate and collect meteorites in Antarctica, and return them for distribution to interested scientific researchers. A second goal has been to understand how the meteorite concentrations are related to ice-sheet dynamics. The ANSMET collection includes many meteorites of previously unknown types and varieties; continued collection is expected to provide many more such specimens, including new lunar samples and others of possible martian origin. Field study of meteorite stranding surfaces will continue, collecting information on the incompletely understood relationship between exposed ice and the meteorite concentrations.