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Re: tektites

To: ruby_tuesday@hotmail.com, Spacerocks@iname000.com
Subject: Re: tektites
From: "ruby tuesday" <ruby_tuesday@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:28:16 PST
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ruby tuesday wrote:
>  If tektites are impact melted earth material ... where are the Moon,
> Mars, Vesta, etc. tektites?
> Ruby
Rick wrote:

>I found this in an old posting by Frank Stroik 12/11/96:

>> . Martian meteorites are tektites, because they are
>> ejecta from another planet.

>So you could say that all the lunar, martian, vesta etc. meteorites 
>are really tektites.

Rick, thanks for going to the trouble to look that up, but Frank merely 
defines ejecta as tektite which really doesn't get us anywhere.
What I a wondering is if impacts create lots of glassy material why 
don't we see glassy meteorites?

Ruby

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