Global warming threatens Antarctica's meteorites

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Antarctica is home to Earth's largest concentration of meteorites — so many that over 60 percent of meteorite finds originate there. But global warming is endangering Antarctica's meteorites, and a new analysis forecasts that close to three-quarters of the continent's meteorites could disappear from the ice sheet surface by century's end, making it nearly impossible to spot or retrieve the precious space rocks.