[meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month

From: Paul Harris <paul_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Apr 11 11:27:41 2006
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060410122052.03a91e28_at_pop.earthlink.net>

Hi Mark!

Sounds like a good Collector's Corner article (hint hint).

I have an excellent example (I think) of a bubble coming out. I think I'll
use it
for May's Tektite of the Month.

Thanks for your input!!

Paul


At 08:47 AM 4/10/2006, MARK BOSTICK wrote:
>Hello fellow tektite addicts Paul and Norm,
>
>Paul noted "I invite you to please share your views and images of
>specimens that you have either
>supporting or opposing so that we can all better understand these amazing
>objects."
>
>I have a few of these somewhere and have many others I strangely left in
>dealer boxes. There are a couple variations in these from what I have
>noticed. Some have nice rims...where others are kind of sunk in with no
>rim. Also, and almost more puzzling, I have seen more that are oval
>rather then round. I would think...without anything to back me
>back...that the more round versions with nice rims are bubbles coming
>out. It just seems to me that would happen. Oval ones that are sunk in
>are a little more confusing as I can't seem to image injection or bubbling
>out forming such features. I am of course ignoring other forces at work
>during or after tektite formation...such as motion or weathering.
>
>Clear Skies,
>Mark Bostick
>www.meteoritearticles.com
>
>
Received on Mon 10 Apr 2006 03:23:59 PM PDT