Authors
Akira Yamaguchi, Naoki Shirai, Makoto Kimura, Naoya Imae, Makiko Haba, Vinciane Debaille, Ryoga Maeda, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys
Publication date
2021/10
Publisher
Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research
Description
This newsletter reports the classification of 821 meteorites collected from ice fields near the Yamato and Belgica Mountains by JARE-15, 20, 39, and 41 (Yamato 74, 79, 98, and 00, Belgica 98 meteorites) and from the Balchen and/or Nansen Ice Fields by JARE-29, 31, 51 and JARE-54/BELARE 2012-2013 (Asuka 87, 88, 90, 09, and 12 meteorites). JARE-51 and JARE-54/BELARE 2012-2013 were the Japan-Belgium joint expeditions. The meteorites include forty-nine carbonaceous chondrites (44 CM, 3 CV, 1 CK, 1 CH), thirty-six achondrites (16 eucrites, 15 diogenites, 1 mesosiderite, 4 ureilites), and twenty-one iron meteorites.
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