[meteorite-list] FW: A Tektite Shower?

From: Treiman, Allan <Treiman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:04 2004
Message-ID: <9CBE44BF7DE9D511960300500424D7D0111FF9_at_cassnt2>

Hi, List --

   A Russian friend sent me this www site reporting on
a shower of tektites in Russia. Here is the english abstract

<<A RAINFALL OF TEKTITES IN NIZHIJ NOVGOROD REGION IN WINTER 1996/1997,

by Dmitriev E.V. Prezented is data concerning the area of dispersed
glasses that, investigation showed, are tektites of unusual composition
discovered in Nizhij Novgorod region the rainfall in Winter 1996/1977.
The appearance of most past of the fragments look like a result of
thermal fragmentation of the meteoroid and subsequent mutual
collisions. They are solidified pieces of a melt stream and heir origin
can be explained be the hypothesis of fulgurie non-Earth origin of
tektites. For the first time the area of tektites dispersion was found
in Russia and for the first time in world the time of tektites rainfall
was recorded.>>

The article is in Russian, here.

http://www.meteorite.narod.ru/proba/kommet/NNtext.htm

   Ever heard of this? The article has some chemical analyses of the
'tektite glass,' and one looks really artificial -- high silica and sodium,
but almost not aluminum. The other looks maybe reasonable.

   Yours

  Allan

Allan H. Treiman
Lunar and Planetary Institute
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston TX 77058-1113
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   281-486-2162 FAX
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Best Regards,

Konstantin
Houston,TX
Received on Wed 13 Feb 2002 09:40:28 AM PST