Bowden Neve
The Bowden Neve (83º30'S 165º00'E) has a small area of exposed ice below an icefall in the vicinity of Mt. Sirius, 28 kilometers northeast of the Lewis Cliff. The exposed ice appears to be derived from the Walcott Neve where ice flows over an escarpment between Coalsack Bluff and Mt. Sirius into the Law Glacier. BOW91-Figure 1 (105 KB JPEG) is a scanned portion of the U.S.G.S. 1:250000 Buckley Island map. One lone specimen was found during a reconnaissance traverse during the 1985-1986 season (Cassidy 1986). The approximate location of the meteorite is depicted on a low resolution ASTER satellite image (BOW91 - Figure 2 - 55 KB JPEG). A very large expanse of bare ice further up the Law Glacier, in the vicinity of Mt. Achenar, proved barren of meteorites based upon a reconnaissance sweep of the area in 1987.
Acknowledgments; ANSMET field party members during the 1985-1986 season were William Cassidy, Peter Englert, Twyla Thomas, Carl Thompson.
Listing of the meteorite specimen from Bowden Neve - 1985 collection.
METEORITE WEIGHT NAME CLASSIFICATION (g) NEWSLETTER ------------------------------------------------- BOW 85800 H6 CHONDRITE 140.6 12(1)
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