[meteorite-list] Tektite Surface Question- Please Zap if I'mout of place

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:03:56 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY111-F32069A64F9ACA06D3E4310B3430_at_phx.gbl>

Hello all,

Norm wrote:

"Also, particularly with the "onion" type of splatted tear, there is usually
a marked contrast between an unpitted, stretched upper surface and a deeply
pitted base. The latter resembles the texture of molten metal poured onto a
very wet surface, where the resulting steam pockets pit the base. I've
often wondered if this is a clue that tektites fell during a very widespread
rainy (monsoon) season when most of southeast Asia was wet. This might also
help to explain why we never see anything embedded in the impact surface of
a plastic tektite."

I collect the onion tektites and have always found those of interest also
Norm. (I think I even got a few of mine from you a few years ago.)

Another interesting version of the onion tektite, are ones with completely
flat, planar flat, bottom. As if they landed like a Hersey Kiss, still
partly soft, and then solidified. Mind you, the physics on such seems
impossible. (If these tektites fell from the upper atmosphere.)

Mark
Received on Mon 30 Apr 2007 10:03:56 PM PDT