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Tektite Testing
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 15, 2010 03:52:00 PM
Views: 2165

We get quite a few emails from people who think they've found a tektite. Jim wrote an article for our Meteorite-Times online magazine about tektite testing a few years ago. If you think you've found a tektite then please read this tektite article.

Tektite Lamp
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 4, 2010 01:40:00 PM
Views: 1640
Jim wrote a wonderful article in the August issue of Meteorite-Times Magazine about the Tektite Lamp he handcrafted out of Indochinite Tektite pieces from The Darryl Futrell Collection of Tektites.

Nothing Ordinary About Ordinary Chondrites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:37:00 PM
Views: 1748
The large meteorites seen in museums are often made of nickel iron. That might give one the impression that most meteorites are solid metal. But, the fact of the matter is that most meteorites are made of stone...

It was a Bad Day to be in Arizona
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:33:00 PM
Views: 891
Imagine a grass covered expanse with creatures both savage and exotic. Its 49,000 years ago and the North American Continent is in a brief interglacial period of warmth. This warmth has created a lush environment for Woolly Mammoths...

What Is So Special About Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:29:00 PM
Views: 867
The Earth’s mass is 6,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 kilograms, roughly speaking and that is a lot of kilos. But tomorrow it will be just a little greater. Because today like everyday some rocks...

Moon Meteorites and Mars Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:24:00 PM
Views: 1278
It seems that when the discussion of Martian and Lunar meteorites comes up two questions are always asked. First how do they get to Earth? And secondly, how do you know they are from the Moon or Mars...

Tektites – Out of this World Natural Glass
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:15:00 PM
Views: 848
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...

Tektite Shapes
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 07:11:00 PM
Views: 966
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 peculiar pieces of natural glass...

Meteorite Collecting
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 06:45:00 PM
Views: 3069
We humans are a species of collectors. Ancients things, new things, art, and oddities are all collected. Included in that list are meteorites. But, why do we collect them? One reason is that meteorites are the rarest of objects on our planet. Far rarer than...

Canyon Diablo Iron Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 06:41:00 PM
Views: 1299
49,000 years ago a small iron asteroid plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere. And though it was small in astronomical terms it created a crater three quarters of a mile across. Scattered around the crater were found starting in the 18802s hundreds of chunks of meteoritic iron. As the years passed...

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