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How is ANSMET supported?
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET) is a US government-supported activity;
simply put, it is supported by you, the taxpayer. Funding for annual fieldwork is supported by
competed grants awarded to Case Western Reserve University from NASA while curation and
characterization work is supported by a partnership between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution.
ANSMET has been continuously funded since 1976. Currently ANSMET support comes from NASA’s
Near Earth Object program, with funding through the 2016-2017 season. That makes us part of the
Planetary Defence Community.

How are ANSMET meteorites distributed? Who owns them?
After each field season the newly recovered specimens are shipped (still frozen) to the Antarctic
Meteorite laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.
[Source: http://caslabs.case.edu/ansmet/faqs/]

It should be noted that Johnson Space Center is the location of NASA’s Lunar Processing Laboratory
where all lunar material acquired from the Apollo missions was taken to be processed and stored.
It is certainly within the realm of possibility for NASA to pass off meteorites gathered from
Antarctica as rocks collected by astronauts on the surface of the Moon. Although ANSMET is
officially recognized as having its start in 1975, three years after the end of the Apollo Program,
there is good reason NASA would have wanted to keep their meteorite gathering activities in
Antarctica hidden from the public until after the Moon missions had ended. I would contend that
Wernher Von Braun and the other NASA managers who went with him to Antarctica in1966/1967,
did so to initiate this program of asteroid collection. They did so just in time to have a sufficient
supply on hand when the first astronauts reportedly returned from the Moon in July 1969.