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Joshua Howgego

'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp

The frozen continent of Antarctica and its surrounding sea ice. .

There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of reach. You might think that these submerged space rocks would be very tricky, expensive and time-consuming to find. But in this excerpt from "The Meteorite Hunters" (Oneworld Publications, 2025), author Joshua Howgego reveals how researchers came up with a way to recover the lost objects — using just a lamp, a freezer and a block of ice.


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