Tektite Of The Month

Tektites – one of the most enigmatic things on Earth… by Roman Davidov from the April 2005 Issue. Tektites – one of the most enigmatic...

by Roman Davidov (revisited from the June 2003 issue of Meteorite Times) Zhamanshin. This word translated from Kazakh language like “bad soil” or “land without...

by Alain Carion The tektites of Ivory Coast are without a doubt the rarest of the tektites in any collections. They have been found while...

This amazing specimen is considered one of the largest specimens outside of a museum and the second or third largest known. This impact glass was...

Please see Norm’s writeup on this amazing folded Lei gong mo tektite in this month’s Norm’s Tektite Teasers

Stretched Teardrop This Indochinite teardrop weighs 15.7g and measures 25 x 50 mm.  The bottom 1/3 on one side broke away and almost slid off,...

Darwin glass is an impactite caused by a meteorite impact. This natural glass is found south of Queenstown in West Coast, Tasmania.      ...

A collapsed Lei Gong Mo bubble fragment, Guangdong Province, China (from the author’s private collection)     This is a popped bubble where a flap...