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Tektite Testing

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:59:00 -0400

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

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:00:00 -0400

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.

Tektites - Out of this World Natural Glass

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:04:00 -0400

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

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:03:00 -0400

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...