[BR-Crater] meteorite hunting

Brad Douglas rez at touchofmadness.com
Thu Aug 9 22:12:33 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 04:53 +0000, save children wrote:
> I have a tektite from Thailand strewn field and I was given this in trade 
> for my donation of Kentland shatter cones to the San Jose State Museum. 
> Interesting as they show two melt events, one leaving the atmosphere and 
> another on reentry.

Interesting.  I'm having trouble visualizing a field strewn with
Thailand. ;-)

Is it possible that the re-entry melt is from simple impact pressure?
Or landed on top of a partially solidified melt pool?  I'm not familiar
with that particular crater.


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73, de Brad KB8UYR/6 <rez touchofmadness com>




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