[meteorite-list] Metal Tektite's?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Apr 23 12:42:35 2006
Message-ID: <003701c6669a$f83530b0$b455e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Kevin,

    A tektite is glass. True, a special glass, with
special characteristics, but it is by definition, a glass.
The word "tektite" means "molten." They are glasses
because they were some kind of "rock" which was
completely melted and then cooled too rapidly to
form crystals again (which is why their origin is
a concealed mystery and a quarrel).
    Certainly, tektites contain metals and the chemical
compounds of metals, but if by "metal tektite" you
mean something similiar to the way an iron meteorite
is a "metal meteorite," the answer would be "no."


Sterling K. Webb
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From: kevin decker
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Metal Tektite's?


Hello,Does anyone here beleive that there might be Metal
Tektite's?..Thank's..Kevin W.Decker.
Received on Sun 23 Apr 2006 01:58:39 AM PDT