National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)

National Institute of Polar Research, NIPR (Japanese: 国立極地研究所, Hepburn: Kokuritsu-kyokuchi-kenkyūsho) is the Japanese research institute for Antarctica. The agency manages several research bases on the continent.

National Institute of Polar Research
国立極地研究所
AbbreviationNIPR
Formation1973 (1973)
Websitewww.nipr.ac.jp

Research centers

The NIPR has several research centers on Antarctica topics. Among others there are meteorological, geological, glacier motion, life science, ice dynamics, etc.

In 1969, the NIPR started collecting meteorites. Their meteorite collection contains almost 17,000 specimens of meteorites — one of the world's largest meteorite collections. The Antarctic meteorite research in the United States is guided by ANSMET.

Antarctic stations

Planetary science education

The NIPR Antarctic Meteorite Research Center loans a set of 30 thin sections of various meteorite types for use in education. The Institute prepared 20 sets of this collection. They were used in several European countries as well, including Hungary, Romania, Denmark, and Belgium. The set includes lunar and Martian meteorites.

Asteroid

Asteroid 7773 Kyokuchiken was named in honor of National Institute of Polar Research (by its shortened Japanese name "Kyokuchiken").[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (M.P.C. 111797).[2]

See also

References
  1. "7773 Kyokuchiken (1992 FS)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  2. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 October 2018.

Further reading
  • Yanai K., Kojima H., Haramura H. (1995): Catalog of Antarctic Meteorites. NIPR, Tokyo
  • William A. Cassidy, Meteorites, Ice and Antarctica, Cambridge University Press (2003), ISBN 0-521-25872-3


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