National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)

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National Institute of Polar Research

国立極地研究所
Abbreviation	NIPR
Formation	1973; 48 years ago (1973)
Website	www.nipr.ac.jp

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.

Research centers[]

The NIPR has several research centers on Antarctica topics. Among others there are meteorological, geological, glacier motion, life science, ice dynamics, etc.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} The Antarctic meteorite research in the United States is guided by ANSMET.^{[citation needed]}

Antarctic stations[]

• Asuka Station
• Dome F
• Mizuho Station
• Showa Station

Planetary science education[]

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

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[]

• Polar Science
• Glossary of meteoritics

References[]

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

External links[]

• Official Japanese website
• Official English website
• Future Symposiums at the National Institute of Polar Research
• Antarctic Meteorite Research (journal)
• Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research

Coordinates: 35°42′45″N 139°24′32″E / 35.71250°N 139.40889°E / 35.71250; 139.40889

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