A Mountain in Antarctica is named after UrFU Professor Grokhovsky

14:41, January 19, 2016

The Grokhovsky Mountain is located in the area, where the base camp of the participants of UrFU Antarctic meteorite expedition was set up

Now Antarctica has the mountain named after an outstanding scientist from Ural Federal University, Professor Victor Grokhovsky and the Mountain of the Ural Meteorite Searchers. The names for two previously unnamed peaks, 2000 meters high each, were given by the participants of the first in the history of modern Russia Antarctic Meteorite Expedition organized by Ural Federal University.

The scientists of Ural Federal University climbed the tops of the mountains in the course of exploration areas of blue ice. At each top they created stone cairn and left a note in a sealed capsule. The member of the Russian Geographical Society, member of the expedition, the famous traveler Andrey Korolev will register documents confirming the names of the mountains.

We would like to remind, that in 2014 in honor of the famous scientist of Ural Federal University and his achievements in the study of the Chelyabinsk meteorite an asteroid received a name of Professor Victor Grokhovsky.

"The Lomonosov Mountains in Antarctica has never been explored by the expeditions. The main mountains have been explored with the help of aerial photographs. The Grokhovsky Mountain is located in the area, where the base camp of the participants of UrFU Antarctic meteorite expedition was set up".

 

Two members of the expedition, experienced climbers Ruslan Kolunin and Andrey Korolev fullfilled the so-called project "Seven Continents": visited all seven continents, as well as climbing five points of the project "Seven Peaks of the World." The goal of the latter in the subjugation of the highest peaks of each continent, including Everest.

On Saturday, the members of the expedition brought two meteorite fragments and samples having structural similarities with them.

The discovered fragments of meteorites to be studied in the laboratory of the university led by UrFU Professor Victor Grokhovsky, the initiator of the expedition. The remaining samples of blue ice cubes will be sent from the station "Novolazarevskaya" in April.

UrFU expedition started on December 16 and lasted two weeks. As a result the members of the expedition collected more than 300 samples in the area of ​​the Lomonosov Mountains at the South Pole. Meteor origin of the two samples the scientists defined in the field.

Reference

UrFU meteorite expedition to Antarctic took place in the framework of the 61st Russian Antarctic Expedition. The author of the expedition project is UrFU professor Viktor Grokhovsky.

UrFU Antarctic Meteorite Expedition has been the first scientific project in the history of modern Russia aimed at search of meteoritic matter on the southernmost continent.  It became possible thanks to the participation of the university in the “Project 5-100”. The budget of the expedition is estimated at about 12.8 million rubles, most of the sum being provided by Ural Federal University. Thanks to the efforts of the UrFU Students’ Union, 500 thousand rubles were collected by means of crowdfunding, some part was invested by sponsors. For example, Ekaterinburg Engineering Company Plana invested 1 million rubles. The clothes for the members of the expedition were prepared by the local company Discovery, while the food supply was provided by NL International.