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Mtrt #20 Wikipedia Meteorite

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meteorite areas. After a dozen other specimens were found in the same place in 1973, a Japanese expedition was launched in 1974 dedicated to the search for meteorites. This team recovered nearly 700 meteorites. Shortly thereafter, the United States began its own program to search for Antarctic meteorites, operating along the Transantarctic Mountains on the other side of the continent: the ANtarctic Search for METeorites (ANSMET) program. European teams, starting with a consortium called "EUROMET" in the late 1980s, and continuing with a program by the Italian Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (http://www.mna.it/english/Research/Ricerca_set.htm) have also conducted systematic searches for Antarctic meteorites. More recently, a Chinese program, the Antarctic Scientific

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