A New Question (Antarctic Politics)

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Thu May 15 23:43:14 EDT 2008

Martin Altmann pondered:

“Besides... I have some ideas (sorry, happens from time
to time):

Could it be also a reason for Antarctic meteorites never
can't be traded, that according the Antarctic treaties,
none of the governments involved in Antarctic hunts
can't get ownership in these meteorites?”

For a discussion of the politics of doing science in Antarctic, there
is a delightful article. It is:

Naylor, S., M. Siegert, K. Dean and s. Turchetti, 2008, Science,
geopolitics and the governance of Antarctica. Nature Geoscience.
vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 143 – 145. doi:10.1038/ngeo138

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n3/index.html#fe

Yours,

Paul H.

Antarctica Meteorites Web Page

Wed May 12 15:58:04 EDT 2004

There is a very nice web page about Antarctica
Meteorites on
Dr. Luann Becker's web site. It is "Antarctica
Meteorites -
Science Notes - 12/03/03" at:

http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/science_notes_11_26_03.html

There is a nice figure at:

http://beckerantarctica.crustal.ucsb.edu/images/sublimation_cartoon.gif

yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA