The US funded collection and curation of Antarctic meteorites, or the US Antarctic Meteorite program, is a cooperative effort among NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ANSMET, and the Smithsonian Institution (SI). The NSF has decades of experience exploring this harsh environment, and provides support for field research and collection. NASA and the Smithsonian Institution are, experts in curation of lunar samples and geologic specimens, respectively, and provide for the classification, storage and distribution of Antarctic meteorites
The American Antarctic Meteorite Curation Website, a database of and general information about the large American collection of meteorites from Antarctica, curated at Johnson Space Center and the Smithsonian Institution.
