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NEW MARS METEORITES FOUND IN ANTARCTICA
January 30, 2003

YAMATO 980459

A new Mars meteorite was announced in the Japanese Meteorite 
Newsletter.  The meteorite, Yamato 980459, was found in the Yamato 
Mountains in the Antartic by the Japanese during the 1998-1999 
collecting season.  The meteorite weighs 82.46 grams, and was 
identified as a shergottite, the most common type of Mars meteorite.  
This increases the number of Mars meteorites to 28.

Y000802

A third piece of the Antarctic nakhlite, Y000802, was also found by 
the Japanese.  Though only weighing 22 grams, combined with its other 
two paired siblings, Y000593 (13.7 kilograms) and Y000749 (1.3 
kilograms), they form the largest nakhlite group ever found.

Ron Baalke 

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