The Korea Polar Research Institute has found over 100 meteorites during its exploration of the Antarctic earlier this year.

The institute’s team studying the meteorites said it had found the specimen near Frontier Mountain, North Victoria Land during its ten-day joint survey with an Italian team from January eighth.

This has increased the number of meteorites found on Antarctica to 146. The new additions will be categorized and registered with an international meteor organization.

Meteorites, which travel in space and fall onto the Earth’s surface due to the Earth’s gravitational pull, are important materials in decoding how the solar system came into being some four-point-five billion years ago. Some 80 percent of the meteorites found so far have been found in the South Pole.