[meteorite-list] Tektites and Park Forest continued...

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:13:10 2004
Message-ID: <20030425143450.89723.qmail_at_web12702.mail.yahoo.com>

My guess is that these are natural to the fall.
Spalled off particles from the bolide's wake. The
nice thing, if this is true, is that the event fell
over a populated area. Lots of houses and streets and
people aware enough to spot these small objects.

Most meteorite falls probably produce them, too. But
who would notice them in an open field, when they are
looking for much larger meteorites?

Steve Schoner
http://www.geocities.com/meteorite_identification
http://www.geocities.com/american_meteorite_survey





--- drtanuki <drtanuki_at_tkc.att.ne.jp> wrote:
> Dear John and List,
> I asked Mr. Futrell the same question as an
> explanation for the formation of
> Indochinites. His answer was no! There IS tektite
> literature that I have come
> across recently about this subject (sorry I don't
> have the reference at hand).
> If one looks at the glassy surface of Camel Donga,
> one can conclude that glass
> was shed on its inward flight. I have also seen one
> Millibille (sp?) with a
> glass tip at the trailing end.
> Yes, high iron content glass is magnetic. Many
> Iron Age glass beads are
> magnetic because of their iron content.
> My samples of glass collected from Dow Corning
> glass wool insulation are in
> the US, so I cannot tell you if they are magnetic or
> not. I would guess not as
> iron is a conductor and insulation materials would
> work better without the iron.
> From the wool samples, I have collected spheres and
> other shapes which look like
> tektites.
> Let us await the results of the analysis.
> Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>
> j.divelbiss_at_att.net wrote:
>
> > Dirk,
> >
> > I appreciate the comments and your caution...and I
> recognize my suggestion is
> > a reach right now. But for discussion sake, what
> do we know about really-
> > really big stones. Many will explode...but those
> that don't, ablate on their
> > way here. As Steve suggested these little guys
> found by Adam/Greg with Park
> > Forest may have come from the molten material
> ablated away. If meteorite was
> > really big, might the molten material "spinoffs"
> be bigger versions of the
> > Hupe' findings? I'm just curious about the
> possibilites?????
> >
> > John
> > > Sorry, I meant to send this to the list also. dr
>
>
>
>
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