UrFU Meteorite Expedition to Mongolia

16:15, August 22, 2018

The participants will collect samples in the Gobi Desert

On August 21,  the employees of UrFU Institute of Physics and Technology went to Ulaanbaatar in order to start the Mongolian Meteorite Expedition. Six employees of the scientific laboratory Extra Terra Consortium will search for space matter in the Gobi Desert.

UrFU Meteorite Expedition will work in Mongolia until September 8, in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia.

‘The initial plan included the ring route about four thousand kilometers from Ulan Bator to the southwestern part of the Gobi Desert and back, but due to heavy rainfall in Mongolia, the route will most likely have to be corrected. We will make a decision at the spot,’ said the head of the expedition Alexander Pastukhovich.

This is the fourth international expedition of UrFU scientists for meteorites, after the Antarctic (Queen Maud Land), Iranian (Deshte-Lut Desert) and Chilean (Atacama Desert) expeditions. The meteorite expedition has been operating on the territory of the USSR and Russia since 1986.