[meteorite-list] What is it??

From: Graham Christensen <voltage_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Apr 11 01:18:13 2005
Message-ID: <005901c53e56$b95da9c0$c3e13b8e_at_megavolt>

I'm pretty sure I have some of this meteor crater glass. A friend of mine
visited the crater a couple years ago and he found a brown bubbly rock with
small white chunks in it that weakly sticks to a magnet. Mark Bostick sent
me a piece of monturaqui impactite to compare and they do seem quite similar
except that the meteor crater specimen has smaller bubbles and isn't as
shiny.

There's a picture of it here:
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/impact.html (top left picture)

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Graham Christensen
voltage_at_telus.net
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector_at_msn.com>
To: <jonee_at_epix.net>; <jan@meteorieten.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What is it??


> Elton noted: "Actually folks..there IS a glass impactite found at Meteor
> Crater. I have read the research long ago but not sure Iremember what it
> looks like. I even think HHN wrote about it."
>
> You are correct Elton, but the impactite looks like Monturique
> impactite....which is also glass. when you melt just about any two or
> more rocks together you get glass. Not window glass, but glass.
>
> Michael is correct on it being burned trash. This was a bunch of it on
> the side of the storage hill a couple of years ago.
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> www.meteoritearticles.com
>
>
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Received on Mon 11 Apr 2005 01:24:24 AM PDT