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Our good friends Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold are starring in another TV Show, this time for The Science Channel.  For more information please read the press release below and see their METEORITE MEN website. (more…)

Take a large piece of rock moving very fast and slam it into the Earth and you can make a crater, release tremendous energy, and kill everything for miles around. But, you probably will not make tektites. These pecular pieces of natural glass have from what we can find, only been made by four impacts of asteroids into the Earth. (more…)

Tektites are collected for their unique shapes and textures as natural oddities. They are glass. They are however, not glass like any other natural glass found on Earth. They form when asteroid hit the Earth and melt the rocks of our planet and send the liquid and vaporous rock material out to near space. (more…)