{"content":[{"text":"Report on the 2009-2010 ANSMET Field Season \n Ralph Harvey, ANSMET","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.064823,"width":0.351755,"height":0.032538}},{"text":"Every ANSMET field season is memorable in some \n fashion, and the memories can be good (a particu- \n larly interesting find), bad (a 6-day windstorm to \n start the season), fun (the Christmas “mime-off”) or \n just ugly (The death of 6 snowmobiles under one \n driver). The 2009-2010 field season was no excep- \n tion, and will be remembered for several exceptional \n things. First, it was a “good weather” season. Af- \n ter the past 4-5 years Mother Nature owed us a \n break, and the field team got it this year, with only \n about 5 days of weather too windy or snowy for \n effective searching. As a result the field team sys- \n tematically searched a much larger area than pre- \n dicted, and slightly over 1000 specimens were re- \n covered. Also memorable was that cool specimens \n started showing up early and kept coming. The SI \n curators joke that regardless of the total number of \n meteorites recovered, a typical season always \n yields about 50 unusual (i.e., non-ordinary-chon- \n drites) specimens. Based on this, they’ve suggested \n we just head home after the first 50 finds and save","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.10976,"width":0.356683,"height":0.32037799999999994}},{"text":"a lot of effort. That tactic might actually have worked this year; \n about a dozen very cool specimens showed up in the first few \n days of searching, and every day seemed to bring at least a \n few more hard-to-identify (and thus easy-to-love) finds. Finally, \n it was a welcome season where everything went pretty closely \n to plan, and plan A at that; flights were on time, equipment \n worked and lasted through the season, and there were no short- \n ages of key material. That was a big change from the last few \n seasons, where plan A quickly devolved into plan C or D with \n shortened field time and balky equipment. In a nutshell, the \n 2009-2010 ANSMET field season went extremely well, and the \n field team (consisting of John Schutt, Lindsay Keller, Neyda \n Abreu, Vera Fernandez, Jim Karner, Bingkui Miao, Brian Hynek \n and Marc Fries) made the best of it. You’ll be seeing the fruits \n of their labor in the Fall newsletter, and I am convinced that \n the rocks themselves will make this a memorable season for \n ANSMET sample users.","bbox":{"left":0.474314,"top":0.06476,"width":0.4374969999999999,"height":0.259772}},{"text":"The 2009-2010 ANSMET field team enjoying Christmas dinner al fresco. \n From left to right: Marc Fries, John Schutt, Vera Fernandez, Lindsay Keller, Bryan Hynek, Neyda Abreu, \n Jim Karner, Bingkui Miao.","bbox":{"left":0.114314,"top":0.874609,"width":0.752323,"height":0.048105000000000064}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.497843,"top":0.939602,"width":0.008176000000000017,"height":0.015614000000000017}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.104085,"top":0.525568,"width":0.794717,"height":0.33851}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.104085,"top":0.525568,"width":0.794717,"height":0.33851}]}