Indochinite 42.2 grams
Indochinite 42.2 grams
Tektite Of The Month
Exploding Tektite
Last month in my Jim’s Fragments article I wrote about the dangers to a tektite specimen during the cutting process. It is obvious from the title of this month installment that those dangers were realized. At about the 40 % point in the cut the tektite exploded. Some pieces remained on the saw, with others spilling out into the air
Tektites: Do Small Worlds Collide?
In my October 2002 Meteorite Times Tektite article we talked about the famous Nininger-Huss Indochinite specimens which exhibit plastic breaks while cooling. A new question we can ask is whether the above breaks were caused during their impact with the ground, or if the plastic breaks were due to a collision with another tektite while in flight or due to