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John A. O'Keefe and the Tektite Problem
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- From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli@lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:41:21 +0200
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Sky & Telescope, September 1978, News Notes: In The Current Journals
The tektite problem, by John A. O'Keefe, Scientific American,
August, 1978. "Painstaking evaluation of the evidence collected
over the past century leaves two possibilities for the origin of
tektites. One is that tektites are bits of terrestrial sedimentary
rock excavated by meteorites striking the earth's surface, melted
by the heat of impact and congealed into glass as they travel above
the atmosphere to the scattered sites where they are found. The other
possibility is that tektites are the remains of gobs of lava fired at
the earth by volcanic activity on the moon."
Best wishes,
Bernd
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