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Re: Tektites are the Third Type of Meteorite!
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- Subject: Re: Tektites are the Third Type of Meteorite!
- From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman@isdmnl.wr.usgs.gov>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 06:49:17 -0400
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At 12:15 AM 5/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>In my never ending pursuit to feret out misinformation I found this. Here is
>a guy selling tektites as "silica meteorites." He also classfies tektites as
>"astronomy" vs. "terrestrial." When I tried to explain to him the error he
>told me he could provide "a reference" which would prove their lunar origin.
>He also told me there are three types of meteorites: Iron, stone, and
>"silica."
>
>Would someone please make a note of this for the 3rd edition of RFS.
>
>-Walter
>
>http://members.tripod.com/~temmons100/mete5065.htm
>
I noticed this March when I was at the Lunar and Planetary Science
Conference that the Space Center Houston gift shop is selling tektites,
nicely mounted with a plaque inscribed "Tektite Meteorite."
jeff