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Article: Geologist goes to Antarctica, finds clues from space.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- February 6, 2002
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Byline: Lynette Kalsnes
CHICAGO_Planetary geologist Paul Sipiera squinted into his microscope at a rock that looked like a charcoal briquette and gasped with pleasure.
"Bingo," he said. Then he broke into song.
After 26 days traveling to Antarctica recently, the Harper College professor was hopeful that his expedition team had discovered at least two rare meteorites among its cache of 33.
His first inspection two weeks ago found that the black lump was probably a stony meteorite from an asteroid discovered 200 years ago and the other was a rare meteorite representing less than 1 percent of the 25,000 found. More sophisticated testing ...