More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on one enormous white surface
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The world's greatest meteorite collection exists not because Antarctica attracts space rocks, but because the continent's ice and wind are nature's most efficient sorting machines.
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