Hefty meteorite containing materials billions of years old found by researchers in Antarctica - Fox Weather

Valdes estimated that of the roughly 45,000 meteorites retrieved from Antarctica over the past century, only about 100 or so are this size or larger.

Valdes was among four scientists on the meteorite-hunting mission led by Vinciane Debaille of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

The research team also included Maria Schönbächler of ETH-Zurich and Ryoga Maeda of the ULB.

They were the first to explore the potential new meteorite sites mapped using satellite images by Veronica Tollenaar, a thesis student in glaciology at the ULB.

The five meteorites discovered by the team will be analyzed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

In addition, the sediment potentially containing tiny micrometeorites was divided among the researchers for study at their institutions.