Why Are They All In Antarctica?

Meteorite hunters don’t search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them – they go to Antarctica instead, because that’s where they are easiest to find.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- ANSMET: a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains.
- Glacier: a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
- Meteorite: a meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground.

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CREDITS
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Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Co-Director
Ever Salazar | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation, and Co-Director
Nathaniel Schroeder | Music

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Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke
Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes
Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich
Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida

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Mazapil Meteorite - James St. John

"Antarctica Satellite Map of Blue Ice" and "Probability of Finding Meteorites"
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and data courtesy of Tollenaar, V., et al. (2022).

Antarctic Meteorite - NASA/JSC/ANSMET

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REFERENCES
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Brennecka, G. (2022). Impact. HarperCollins.

Korotev, R. (n.d.). [Letter to Cameron Duke].

[caydes]

Love it that the person looking for Meteorite was sokka trying to make his space sword

[themaskedcrusader]

ok, this was clever. I was wondering why the stick-guy looked an awful bit lit Sokka until the reference to Aang and Appa at the end. Good job, guys.

[gripperrod]

Jon Larson a Norwegian jazz musician became obsessed with finding micrometeorites and developed a technique for identifying them from the dust on rooftops. Since roofs haven’t been around long, the ones he found are relatively new and not eroded. He’s apparently revolutionised the science, all because he tried something the establishment considered impossible. An inspiring story.

[rongpirson]

It’s funny how sokka lived his whole life in his worlds equivalent of Antarctica but only found a meteorite in the fire nation

[alphaapple]

I loved how #MinuteEarth included the mythological Cthulhu.

[weizhao]

i am 11 years old...and i know more science than most of the 9th graders in my school becuz of min earth. tk u 4 making me smart!!

[MrSlosh]

I was going to guess magnets, but a cuddly glacier custodian is pretty cool too.

[Theiliteritesbian]

Good video. Also thanks for not dragging it out to 18 minutes

[jacksonfurlong]

So we could mine glaciers for meteorites? Awesome!

[nathanhale]

I used to have one. At least I think that's what it was. It was only about an inch and a half long. It was broken showing a metallic interior with a melted exterior. Most meteorites are tiny. Smaller than a grain of rice. If you run a strong magnet around any random place you find them. Often mixed with chunks of rusty metal

[banaanipassifin]

Best video about Media Rights ive seen

[hellobro]

1:48 i like how they Animated the horn of Antarctica as an arm

[marcosmith]

Nice, not sure there's anything easy about Antarctica, but at least theres a reason to go there, other than the penquins of course!

[constance.mcentee]

This is the first and only time I've seen an educational video featuring guest appearances by both Cthulhu and Aang.

[byoobyoo]

I did not know that. That was very interesting.

[גיאדרי]

The video is great, but when I saw Sokka it became even better

[MythologywithMike]

Can't believe no one's talking about Sokka guest starring in this video

[GregorioGrasselli]

Also, in some deserts, men already collected meteorites to use their iron in the past millennia.

[fanboygamere]

It’s funny how often Cthulhu shows up since Antarctica has a pretty prevalent role in Lovecraft’s fiction, with it being the center of the Old Ones’ empire before man evolved as seen in Mountains of Madness

[KafshakTashtak]

This got me thinking. Those deep sea mineral nodules that deep sea mining companies are trying to mine, are they meteorites?