Since 1969 about 8,900 meteorites have been collected on the bare icefields around the Yamato and the Belgica Mountains, and Victoria Land. In the past several years, search for meteorites was also carried out around the Sor Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land. They include new types of meteorites such as lunar meteorites and a Martian meteorites. They also include very rare meteorites such as lodranites, CI carbonaceous chondrites, and polymict eucrites. The results of classification are published in our catalogs.
Meteorite specimens are available on loan to investigators from the world scientific community.
A new meteorite from the Moon was collected from the Sor Rondane Mountains area in 1988 field season. It is a new type of lunar meteorite, which does not occur in the lunar rocks collected by the Apollo and Lunar Missions. Under NIPR sponsorship, the search for more new kinds of meteorites in Antarctica continues. A new type of lunar meteorite from the Moon mare region.